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 primar ...

Water levels are one of the most important factors in shad fishing. They can change from day to day and season to season and are one thing that people have no control over. So here are some things … ...

The 2023 shad run has been epic. The fishing was so good recently that it turned into a friendly fishing competition between friends.

Registrations have doubled for the seventh annual Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest running April 20-23, 2017.

Today shad fishing is a rite of spring for Lowcountry anglers who mostly head to two well-known spots in the spring — the Tailrace Canal in the upper stretches of ...

Shad populations in the Hudson River have dropped so seriously that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed closing both the recreational and commercial fishing ...

The 9th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest runs through Sunday, April 28, 2019, on the Delaware River.

One of the most anticipated events of the post-Christmas season is the arrival of shad migrating up Lowcountry rivers to spawn. The peak of the shad run generally doesn’t occur until late ...

Fishing for hickory and white —or American — shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in the mid-Atlantic. In our area, the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which ...

American shad, Alosa sapidissima, has been an important food fish in the Connecticut River since colonial days and has become our State fish in recognition of that fact. And even with the dropping ...

Once severely depleted, American shad — the fish that fed the nation’s founders — are finally making a comeback in the Chesapeake Bay. Their return, however, so far has been uneve… ...