He's holding a lure called a Nungesser, above which is a shad dart. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) Perspective by John Kelly Tuesday after work I met Tom Clifford so he could show me two bits of ...

What they will do, however, is smack a shad dart, grub, or flutter spoon out of annoyance. In order to annoy them, that lure has got to be right in their faces. As they advance upriver, your offering ...

He’d unclip his heavy rubber chest waders from the pipe on the ceiling. He’d zip his box of shad darts into one pocket of his fishing vest and a few packs of True menthols into the other. The next ...

The tried and true method I have found to be the most effective is the tandem shad dart rig. Using a loop knot, I tie a lighter shad dart, normally 1/16 oz on my fishing line about two or three ...

“The biggest one I caught was 35 and a half pounds.” For shad, it’s all about picking the right color dart or flutter spoon that’ll pique the fish’s interest. The weigh station is ...

Line should be strong enough to lean into a hard-driving fish, but light enough to break off a shad dart or lure when we inevitably hang up on the bottom. Bait-casting tackle is popular ...

He has created what he calls the world’s largest and smallest shad darts. Weighing more than 100 pounds, the concrete lure which sits in front of Gotzon’s stand is too heavy to be used.

American shad have been sniffing their way up the east coast looking for the rivers they were born in. Shad are anadromous clupeid fish, which means they live in the Atlantic Ocean and return to ...

shad are fairly easy to catch using a tiny pink lure called a shad dart, sold in all the tackle shops in the vicinity of the river. The once-thriving commercial shad fishery along the Connecticut ...

known to swing their heads at anything in their way -- including a well-placed shad dart or flutter spoon that can net a challenging sport-fish catch from the river for a few weeks each year.

A combination of brightly colored sinking flies, small shad darts and chrome or gold spoons. The action is not expected to last much longer as water temperatures in the lower Susquehanna reached ...