Ever since I was a little kid who used to ride his bike to Liberty Reservoir, one of the most effective lures in my scant arsenal of baits was the shad dart. For those of you who don’t know, the shad ...

today as the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest got underway. The four-day tournament is in its fourth year, but this one has taken on added significance with the cancellation of the long-running Forks of ...

American shad – the gamefish not the bait – are no strangers to this region. In Colonial times, vast migratory runs proceeded up the Schuylkill River and it’s an historical anecdote that in 1778 an ...

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Some of the very best times I've had fly-fishing have been chasing around the American shad, including right in our own area in the Hudson River. Shad are a fish that were made with fishing in mind ­­ ...

Join us this week as we fish the Cape Fear River for the sporty American White Shad. Join us this week as we fish the Cape Fear River for the sporty American White Shad. On gear time our anglers ...

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 ...

It has been nearly four decades since Rusty Held was bitten by the American shad fishing bug. Introduced to angling for the anadromous fish by a good friend, the South Whitehall Township resident was ...