From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Here's how — and where — to ...

Last week we took a look at why shad are such an appealing gamefish in spring as they surge up coastal rivers to breed in ...

Looking for new fishing lures? Here are some great options to add to your tackle box as you head onto the open water.

This move to the shallows triggers bass, sac-a-lait, catfish and even bream to move with the shad. After all, shad are the forage species for these predators, and it’s hard for these voracious eaters ...

The Chatterbait is one of the hottest lures in bass fishing today. In fact ... But they do just as good a job mimicking the adult menhaden and large gizzard shad stripers crave. In stained water, the ...

A joint team of researchers from Shanghai Ocean University and Jagannath University in Bangladesh has unveiled three groundbreaking discoveries about the hilsa shad, marking a milestone in ...

Chris Mack, a fisheries biologist with the DNR who responds to fish kill events, said it was a naturally occurring event that killed “thousands” of gizzard shad ... used as bait for catfish ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received several reports earlier this week of dead fish at the Lake of the Ozarks. An investigation into the reports revealed that ...

For many fishermen, though, the list of spring fishing adventures is topped by another species — shad. Two species, actually. Both white (American) shad and hickories migrate up Virginia rivers. Both ...

The period of the first arrival of shad in the Hudson river, varies somewhat according to seasons, or as old fishermen believe, with the state of the moon. The very first fish, which always sell ...