I used to fish the shad run from the banks of the Potomac river growing up in DC. People would line up all along the river with dip nets just scooping them up out of the creek channels. I didn't care for them but my mom used them for fertilizer for her garden and we gave a bunch away to people that would pickle them. That's where I learned how to fish for catfish too. As I got older I became just a bass fisherman until I got injured and stopped fishing. I still take people out a lot as we have a lake house but rarely fish anymore.