Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A heavy roe shad that smacked a flutter spoon on the Delaware River. From Maine to Florida and even in the Pacific Northwest, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...

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 ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

Anyone who has fished for American shad on the Delaware River for any length of time knows shad numbers are not what they once were. In fact, populations of the anadromous fish are down in almost ...

Salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin could have another mounting challenge: a horde of American shad. In recent years, non-native shad migrating past Bonneville Dam on the Lower Columbia ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Many areas in this country have icon species that add richness to the sense of place, but dams built in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1700s ...