CLEVELAND, Ohio — Perilous Lake Erie winds and waves this week cut short a surge of great walleye fishing after dark, causing ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! American shad were a major food source for early European settlers and Native ...

Fishermen trying their luck at Scottburgh beach during open season. (Stock photo). Any confusion about the exact dates for the shad fishing closed season have been clarified. The Department of ...

Monterey Bay anglers are enjoying an all too brief limited open salmon fishing period this weekend. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife allowed a brief opener in June, during which the ...

Over the past four decades, the American shad population in Virginia — specifically the James River — collapsed. Humans are largely to blame. Dams, pollution, commercial fishing bycatch, water ...

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Fishing duo Cole and Jay use giant shad to trigger a wild and frenzied feeding session. Hundreds of Allegedly Fraudulent Filings Exposed Helen Mirren says she’s left ‘insulted’ by younger people’s ...

Open ocean salmon fishing last weekend generated quite a bit of anticipation and excitement. As expected, there were hundreds of boats fishing for kings on Monterey Bay for the “limited opening” on ...

If history is any teacher, we will have another three weeks until 2025’s shad spawn on our local reservoirs comes to an end, and with it one of the two best windows of fishing opportunity of the year.

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...

An eagle-eyed St. Paul resident traipsing through nature spotted hundreds of dead fish floating Wednesday in an icy Mississippi River bay near Shepard Road and Randolph Avenue. The site was both ...