HOLYOKE — After hours of casting and waiting, Gail Weeks finally hooked a shad. As the Chicopee resident reeled in the fighting fish, her brother grabbed a net to help her land her quarry. “She did a ...

Commercial fishermen can take to the water beginning at 12 a.m. on Jan. 1 to take advantage of the opening day of shad season, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife ...

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...

It’s not easy to win the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest as evidenced by the fact that the tournament started in 2011 has never had a repeat winner. However, that doesn’t stop American shad angling ...

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...

For decades American shad have been one of Western Massachusetts’ signature fish, flooding the Connecticut River in the spring when they head upstream from the Atlantic Ocean to spawn. This is a story ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In the last 20 to 30 years, shad populations in the Columbia River have soared while salmon populations dropped significantly. This contrast between one fish species thriving ...

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 ...