According to legend and lore, it’s the fish that may have made America possible. As the tale goes, Gen. George Washington’s ragtag Continental Army was on the brink of starvation at its encampment ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Their annual spawning run from far out in the Atlantic is historically significant: it provided a ...

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 ...

In San Francisco Bay, this video showcases the technique of catching shad and includes a delicious cooking recipe. It also ...

While it’s true in Stardew Valley that there are plenty of fish in the sea, it’s just as true for the river as well! Of those river fish is the Shad, but it’s not something you can catch all year ...

The influx of shad into the warming tidal tributaries along the Atlantic seaboard will soon lure anglers to the shores of the Susquehanna River in Maryland and the lower Potomac River in Washington, D ...

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 ...

For most Southern Maryland fishermen, a rite of passage each spring is catching yellow perch. Whether at Allen’s Fresh, Mason Springs or Waysons Corner, for many locals, the perch run means that ...

Chris House and I had been trying to arrange a shad trip for several weeks. I tried fishing for shad in early March with my son, Justin. We towed our johnboat to White Lake to try for yellow perch, ...

Anglers fishing for American shad on the Delaware and other Mid-Atlantic region rivers have encountered a “sticky” situation this spring as some of the fish they’re catching are filled with ...