Eric Fistler's Bi-State event runs April 23-26 with family-friendly competition as Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and ...

A heavy roe shad that smacked a flutter spoon on the Delaware River. From Maine to Florida and even in the Pacific Northwest, ...

—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 ...

spring in search of their ancestral spawning grounds. Following the spawning American shad from Trenton north to Hancock, N.Y., are thousands of anglers who anxiously cast colorful lead “darts” and ...

When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, there are only two things that are guaranteed: The fish are going to make their annual migratory spawning run up river each spring, and the ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

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 ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

Shad - Is it the tofu of the sea? Not known as a delicious fish by itself, some people resort to mixing it with other ingredients to make it more palatable. In recent years at Shad Fest in ...

It has been nearly four decades since Rusty Held was bitten by the American shad fishing bug. Introduced to angling for the anadromous fish by a good friend, the South Whitehall Township resident was ...