Tail: Pearl Blue Magic Hanked Lite-Brite color a Cool Gray tail
Tail Fin: Cool Gray Prismacolor Pen
Body: Pearl Blue Bodi-Braid
Eye & Insert: Silver Spirit River, Real Eye with
Priz Silver 3-D Molded
insert
Lower Side: Pearl Blue Hanked Lite-Brite
Upper Side: Silver Hanked Lite-Brite with a small Black Prismacolor Pen
shoulder spot
Snout Color or Change Thread: Doc. Blue 8/0 Uni-thread
Belly or Stomach: Pearl Blue Hanked Lite-Brite
Dorsum or Back: Silver Hanked Lite-Brite with Deep Blue Hanked Lite-Brite
over sparsely
Head Color: Blue
Cheek & Chin Color: Pearl Blue
Colored Markers: Cool Gray Prismacolor Pen for tail: Black Prismacolor Pen
for a small shoulder spot.
Tying Notes: None
Distribution: Found on the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Florida.
Habitat: An anadronomus specie that only enters the freshwater along the
coast to spawn.
Spawning Period: Late spring to early summer.
Spawning Habitat: At sunset, in shallow water in the mouth of a creek.
Important Notes: Young-of-the-year shad stay in the streams and rivers
throughout the summer, then migrate to the sea in the fall.