BOISE, Idaho — Tight Lines 208 is dedicated to helping people become better anglers through education. The Tackle Tip is designed to give readers a crash course on a specific lure or gear item. Want ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now’s the time to rummage through your tackle box and take out all those off-brand lures you seldom use. The small spoons, spinners, jigs, and odd devices you got suckered into buying, or were given ...

It’s hard to leave the water, especially when the fish are snapping. So I’ve determined the pronouncement “just one more cast” is merely folly, a falsehood built on self delusion. In nearly 30 years ...

This past weekend, I stowed the larger canoe I use for waterfowl hunting and brought back with me to my weekday apartment in Virginia my fishing canoe. In about the length of time it will take me to ...

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 ­­ ...

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 ...

Jerk baits are big right now for bass and will be soon for walleye. I recently came across a new iteration on the theme from Rapala; the Shadow Rap Shad is patterned after the Shadow Rap, which is a ...

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 ...