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 you ...

VENICE -- Saturday’s final leaderboard from the 17th annual Faux Pas Rodeo with winning teams and the weights of their catches in pounds. The Grand Slam calcuttas in each division is the combined ...

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 primary ...

From Northern Florida to Maine, American and hickory shad leave the ocean and pile into coastal rivers every spring to spawn. I’d argue that every East Coast angler should learn how to catch shad. In ...

Each year the shad make their way up the Delaware River to replenish their species. They are a key ingredient in the forage base in the river and their runs, successful or unsuccessful, are tied to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. You’ve heard the expression “two heads are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...