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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Removing the dam would open more than 500 miles—and as many as 1,000 miles—of habitat for American shad, river herring and other migratory fish. “Rapidan, Orange County and Culpeper County ...

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 ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A fish ladder will be open to the public to watch American Shad migrate upstream this Sunday. The Westfield River Watershed Association (WRWA) expects hundreds ...