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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Georgia angler has reeled a state-record hickory shad from the same river that had produced the previous record. Timmy Woods of Kite, Ga., was fishing recently on the Ogeechee River when the 2-pound ...