Walt this year I had a record spawn of shad and I think most of the schools that I could get close enough in the boat to see were threadfin. Most of the fish in the schools are very small in size. My question is why don't the bluegill benefit from feeding on these very small fish? Many of the schools look like they have fish in them that are less than an inch long and I often catch bluegill on shiners that are two inches long. I could understand it if the schools only stayed out in the middle of the pond but often the schools stay right along the bank. In fact I watched a bass hit a school that was near the shore and land on the bank and then flop back into the water.
