No shad to speak of. Most abundant minnows are probably chubs - but there are a lot of carp and carpsuckers species in the river that i would guess make up a large portion of diet to any predators. You can see lots of gold hue flashes when the minnows school in the fall.

Is a major dam downstream scheduled to come down in the next few years that i have a feeling may change the forage base. With it gone, it will allow access for fish from L.Erie to come upstream. Possibly even let the 'eyes run up this far in the spring.