About this time of year a few friends and I travel down to the Columbia River to fish for shad. It has become an annual tradition. The reason I enjoy it so much is it is kind of old school fishing.

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 ...

The influx of shad into the warming tidal tributaries along the Atlantic seaboard will soon lure anglers to the shores of the Susquehanna River in Maryland and the lower Potomac River in Washington, D ...

If there is a fish in this world that has it figured out it is the American shad. Given every obstacle in its way, the shad not only is surviving, it is thriving. When the runs of steelhead and salmon ...

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 ...

I've never forgotten my first shad fishing adventure, even though it took place nearly 40 years ago. I remember that I had no clue what I was doing and I didn't come close to catching a fish. But as a ...

An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs are in their early stages, but some fish are being taken in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Shad return from the sea ...

A few days ago, Dennis Covert of Columbia was carefully dismantling his fly-fishing gear alongside Deer Creek in Harford County and wondering about the shad fishing. Was he too early? He was also ...