For generations, the white bucktail jig has been hailed as the most versatile lure ever. So effective is its ability to catch any fish anywhere, bucktails were once stocked in military-issue survival ...

If there's a drawback to the Swim Shads, it's that they require the angler to re-tie if the lure tears or slides down the hook. That, of course, will only happen after the lure has been blistered by ...

It may have been a chilly spring, but the shad have arrived right on time. They are running in the river and fishermen are pulling them out of the water in anticipation of the annual Lambertville Shad ...

For hundreds of years, the annual run of the shad fish up the Schuylkill River was a critically important event to the inhabitants of Southeastern Pennsylvania. For the original Lenni Lenape, the ...

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 ...

The 18-year-old queen of the 2001 Shad Derby Festival has a name that means “smile” in India. Smitha Ballyamanda, a senior at Northwest Catholic High School, said she is hoping for fair weather for ...

Any angler who has fished the coastal marshes for more than about a week knows redfish love skinny water. They also love the wobble and vibration of crankbaits, but most of these lures run too deep to ...