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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

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 ...

Warning, shad fishing is addictive. This is the time of year when my thoughts of the annual shad run at Fletcher’s Cove on ...