they hug the channels on their migration, once the water warms to 50 for some time they will come into the shallows and daisy chain, you can use bright wet flies for them then near the surface, mostly I carry lead core in 1960 to 340 gr. heads all the way up to 35 foot with braided mono for running line. I use an 8 wt. this time of year either single or 2 handed. I have a bunch of shad flies up for sale, need to thin them out since I don't get to fish over that way as much as I used to do. I'll be putting them up on my web site today some time. selling by the box.