This time each year, shad swim up the Connecticut River, over time depositing billions of fertilized eggs that have kept this species, the largest member of the herring family, coming back. These are ...

Although shad reports have been slow thus far, that will change as the water temperature begins to rise. The peak is normally ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

They draw anglers from near and far to the Delaware River each spring, providing a boost to the local economy and countless hours of enjoyment for fishermen, but the American shad is a species in ...

EASTON, Pa. - The Delaware River Shad Fishermen's Association is fundraising, after a tree fell on its building in Easton's Hugh Moore Park this past fall. "We still have a long ways to go," said ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is launching a comprehensive creel survey from March through July amid declining adult shad spawning runs.

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 ...

SACRAMENTO – The American shad is one of the most popular and yet most mysterious fish that anglers pursue on California’s Central Valley rivers in the spring. Shad are known for the great fights that ...