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 ...

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 ...

Although shad reports have been slow thus far, that will change as the water temperature begins to rise. The peak is normally ...

After hitting it hard fishing for spring chinook through late April and well into the month of May, I like to flip the calendar to June, because the month brings with it some other fishing ...

Most years, Eric Fistler is pretty pumped as the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest approaches. By now, he’s putting the finishing touches on getting ready for the tournament, and registrations are rolling ...

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 ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is launching a comprehensive creel survey from March through July amid declining adult shad spawning runs.