Nick Hatfield shocks field at 2025 BPT Heavy Hitters on Smith Mountain Lake with a SPRO Aruku Shad lipless crankbait, landing $110K and his first BPT win.

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth ... according to Fistler. He lost a lure rig earlier this week when it was bitten off by ...

Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Shad was a popular meal in early America, but its oily, bony flesh does not appeal to many modern American palates. Nearly all of the Lewis fishery’s ...

Hating the Southwest, particularly its burgeoning cities such as Phoenix, is de rigueur in American media. Jon Stewart has called Arizona “the meth lab of democracy.” Hunter S. Thompson ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring ... you’re not getting them. You’re not going to lure a fish off its line because not only is it not ...

Both white (American) shad and hickories migrate up Virginia rivers ... Riggings A simple rig of a lure tied to the end of the line on a spin fishing outfit or a single fly at the end of a tapered ...

The prize was an American shad -- probably the most important fish you've never seen. The shad, which migrates from the sea to freshwater rivers in the spring to spawn, once fed hungry Indians and ...

It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake River in southeastern Washington, American shad hang out in the fish ladder. A few years ...