Good place to look for some fresh bait!

[Pool_Eleven]

So in the last few years of really getting serious about catfishing i have been looking and asking around on where to get shad at for cutbait. I have some good spots to collect some nice bullheads for my bait tank and have plenty of spots to catch plenty of suckers. But ive always wanted to find shad to use.

Well ive finally found a place and its been right under my nose this whole time. The local power plant in a neighboring town. A guy from in town works there and was explaining to me how he has to clean the screens from the intake water and the discharge water a couple times a day to get the debris and fish off. I said fish?? He said yea, its hit and miss sometimes but theres days where he said he could fill a couple wheelbarrels full of shad!! Dead or alive he said. Needless to say i was super interested and hes gonna be getting me as many 5 gallon buckets of shad as i need when i need them!

So if you know anyone who works at a powerplant and your looking for good fresh bait. Wouldnt hurt to ask. Not sure if everyone already knew this but i thought id Just pass this information on.