Posted: October 21, 2025 | Last updated: October 21, 2025 Today I'd like to show you a perfect and easy way to rig up a plastic shad.

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 ...

Every few minutes, an angler standing waist deep Wednesday in the frigid American River would holler, “YAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!” and his buddies would laugh. The angler would lean back, his rod bowed as his ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

The silvery fish leaped out of the clear water and surged on one last run. It was Memorial Day 1969 and the first time that I had ever fished for or hooked a shad. I was using a light spinning rod ...

When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...