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 ...

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...

It’s not easy to win the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest as evidenced by the fact that the tournament started in 2011 has never had a repeat winner. However, that doesn’t stop American shad angling ...

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 ...

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 ...

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...