From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Cobb salad is a main-dish American garden salad made from chopped salad greens (iceberg lettuce, watercress, endives and Romaine lettuce), tomato, crisp bacon, boiled, grilled or roasted (but not fried) chicken breast, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese, and red-wine vinaigrette. Black olives are also often included.
We began our day before sun up and cast our nets to catch an interesting little bait fish â the shad. North Carolina actually has six different species of shad: the American shad, hickory shad, blueback herring, alewife, threadfin shad, and gizzard shad. Lake Tillery has threadfin and gizzard shad in it.
Shad are overgrown members of the herring family that live in the ocean but spawn in fresh water each spring. They're East Coast natives that are now found in abundance in the west, too. Shad may be caught for food and sport, but they're also used as bait fish for larger catches like blue catfish, bass or stripers.