The sardines mostly moved out of reach last week but nets were taken up at Pennington and Umgababa. Large shoals were also observed moving north of Amanzimtoti. One or two small nets of mixed baitfish ...

South Coast anglers are reeling in shad at a furious pace, with only empty bait buckets and sleep slowing the action during this year’s shad run. Some big fish typically caught offshore have also been ...

KZN shore fishing delivers nonstop action despite strong winds. Grey sharks, shad, and garrick bite hard while dorado and ...

Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

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 ...

The American shad, Alosa sapidissima, like the striped bass, is an anadromous fish. It is a member of the family of herrings. Prior to the late 1800s, shad were found in almost all river systems along ...

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 ...

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 ...