Fishing for hickory and white (American) shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in mid-Atlantic country. In our area the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which includes ...

—and even then, the action can get so crazy that I forget if I’ve landed four and lost three or vice versa or some equation that only approximates that. And then I forget that I’m trying to keep count ...

Water levels are one of the most important factors in shad fishing. They can change from day to day and season to season and are one thing that people have no control over. So here are some things you ...

While talking with a couple of Lake Mead fishermen recently, the subject turned to gizzard shad. Since they showed up in Lake Mead in 2007, gizzards have displaced threadfin shad as both the primary ...

It’s hard to leave the water, especially when the fish are snapping. So I’ve determined the pronouncement “just one more cast” is merely folly, a falsehood built on self delusion. In nearly 30 years ...

I've never forgotten my first shad fishing adventure, even though it took place nearly 40 years ago. I remember that I had no clue what I was doing and I didn't come close to catching a fish. But as a ...

As the Hudson River continues to warm, the annual spawning run of shad, one of the river's iconic species, will begin in earnest. For longtime shad fishermen like Poughkeepsie's John Mylod, this time ...

People fish in the water during the last day of the 2021 Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest held along the Delaware. Over 1100 people entered the contest. John Hyman, of Williams Township, holds up a shad ...

Darryl Goffredo, from Essex County in New Jersey, fishes for American shad the evening of Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the Delaware River at the confluence with the Lehigh River in Easton. (Kurt ...

Connecticut has a state fish! The American Shad was once so important to coastal life that it was named our state fish in 2003. It was a crucial source of food for Native Americans and New World ...