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 ...

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 ...

EASTON – Ask any angler to name their favorite type of fishing in the Keystone State and the usual suspects typically come to mind – trout, bass, muskellunge, panfish and perhaps walleye. For a small ...

Some of the very best times I've had fly-fishing have been chasing around the American shad, including right in our own area in the Hudson River. Shad are a fish that were made with fishing in mind ­­ ...

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 ...

—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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is the latest Fishing Report as provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife for Sept. 13.

Once severely depleted, American shad — the fish that fed the nation’s founders — are finally making a comeback in the Chesapeake Bay. Their return, however, so far has been uneven. Spawning runs of ...