Bill, Good luck with that thatcher rental. The way this weather has been this year I give you 50/50 odds on using it Tuesday.
My local crappie lake has suffered a severe winter kill of gizzard shad. Lake shore is carpeted with 6"-10" shad slowly ripening in the sunshine. Gulls, terns, ospreys, eagles, crows and buzzards are all feasting on the carcasses. Smell can be overpowering! I"m worried what the lake by our cabin looks like. It also tends to experience shad winter kill when lake completely freezes, as it did this year. The last time this happened our chocolate lab loved eating the sun-dried carcasses every time we left him out on shore to run around. Some of the stuff he has dragged back to the boat over the years would gag a maggot!
