I was fishing my local lake last week and I kept seeing big moving circles on top of the water. Usually this is bugs swimming around but this time I would hear them all make small splashes and disappear completely. I trolled over to the top and noticed that this wasn't bugs, it had to be shad. I would cast into these circles but could never get anything to bite under them.
I'm fairly new to finding and locating fish out of a boat, so generally what is a good practice to target fish under these schools? There has to be bass around them looking to feed on them. When it got dark, I was watching bass coming up to feed but I couldn't get them to bite a Pop-r or a buzzbait.
Any suggestions? Surely these schools of shad shouldn't be ignored when they're coming to the top of the water like that.
