Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A heavy roe shad that smacked a flutter spoon on the Delaware River. From Maine to Florida and even in the Pacific Northwest, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EASTON – Each spring, the annual Forks of the Delaware Shad Fishing Tournament draws people from throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond to the waters of the Delaware River to try their hand at ...

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.

It’s often been said that the formula for successful shad fishing is the same as for establishing the desirability of real estate: location, location, location. Some would add the element of timing. A ...

Shoreline anglers have to do some long-distance casting to get at migrating shad. That makes the use of certain types of equipment, lighter lines and better casting skills a must. One of the main ...

Winter angling on Norfork Lake can be one of the most productive periods of striper fishing. Beginning in mid-December thorough February the stripers will stick close to the old river channels near or ...

The calendar says shad, but there are no shad to be had. This cantankerous winter will not let go. Down at the river, on the north bank of the James, I run into a friend, Matt Miller. He and two ...

I thought I detected a snub to Susquehanna River anglers when I read that the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently floated the idea of allowing catch-and-relase angling for American shad on ...