On the water, look for clues like a dead baitfish that can help you match your lure to what the bass are eating. When I fish a lake with a lot of shad, white swimbaits are my go-to for fish that ...

Cleaner water, I'm probably going to go with some kind of shad color-Sexy Shad usually. Around here, the best stuff is dark rock. I call it black rock, but they're not always black.

After all, shad are the forage species for these predators ... we’re going to see reports about hunters taking turkeys over bait. Don’t do it and think you’ll get away with it.