After a record-setting year in 2021, the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest is back for its 11th run with thousands in cash and prizes and a brand-new website that makes it easier than ever for people to ...

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 ...

I’M NOT MUCH of a fish counter, except for when it comes to false albacore—and even then, the action can get so crazy that I forget if I’ve landed four and lost three or vice versa or some equation ...

Anglers chase American shad in the Delaware River, Thursday, April 20, 2023, during day one of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest at Phillipsburg-Easton.Get Photo Anglers chase American shad in the ...

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 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Many areas in this country have icon species that add richness to the sense of place, but dams built in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1700s ...

When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...

When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, there are only two things that are guaranteed: The fish are going to make their annual migratory spawning run up river each spring, and the ...

SUNBURY -- Dave Deitrick says he often comes to fish in the Susquehanna River near the Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam, but has never caught an American shad. "I'd know a shad if I saw one," the Shamokin ...

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 ...

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 ...