This past weekend, I stowed the larger canoe I use for waterfowl hunting and brought back with me to my weekday apartment in Virginia my fishing canoe. In about the length of time it will take me to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American shad on a hook in the water From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About this time of year a few friends and I travel down to the Columbia River to fish for shad. It has become an annual tradition. The reason I enjoy it so much is it is kind of old school fishing.

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 ­­ ...

When I was speaking with N.C. Wildlife Commission biologist Clint Morgeson during the Sutton Lake fish attractor project, he said the shad run began earlier than usual. The fish were already heading ...

Once an old-timer told me, “The shad run when the pink dogwood blooms.” We had a pink dogwood in our yard when we lived in Gladstone at the junction of the Clackamas and the Willamette rivers. When we ...

If there is a fish in this world that has it figured out it is the American shad. Given every obstacle in its way, the shad not only is surviving, it is thriving. When the runs of steelhead and salmon ...

Join us this week as we fish the Cape Fear River for the sporty American White Shad. Join us this week as we fish the Cape Fear River for the sporty American White Shad. On gear time our anglers ...

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 ...