This time each year, shad swim up the Connecticut River, over time depositing billions of fertilized eggs that have kept this species, the largest member of the herring family, coming back. These are ...

They draw anglers from near and far to the Delaware River each spring, providing a boost to the local economy and countless hours of enjoyment for fishermen, but the American shad is a species in ...

Warning, shad fishing is addictive. This is the time of year when my thoughts of the annual shad run at Fletcher’s Cove on ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

EASTON, Pa. - The Delaware River Shad Fishermen's Association is fundraising, after a tree fell on its building in Easton's Hugh Moore Park this past fall. "We still have a long ways to go," said ...

Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

Shad, the “poor man’s Salmon,” once populated the Hudson River estuary from New York Harbor north to Fort Edward. The silvery-blue fish, which can grow up to 30 inches, was an important food source in ...

You know it’s spring in tidewater Maryland when, along with forsythia, blooming cherry trees and butter-colored daffodils, the American shad — Alosa sapidissima — course up the Chesapeake Bay from ...

SACRAMENTO – The American shad is one of the most popular and yet most mysterious fish that anglers pursue on California’s Central Valley rivers in the spring. Shad are known for the great fights that ...