Over the past four decades, the American shad population in Virginia — specifically the James River — collapsed. Humans are largely to blame. Dams, pollution, commercial fishing bycatch ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust ...

Major League Fishing pro David Walker taught in an impromptu "Shad Spawn 101" class in early May while fishing on camera in an MLF Now! Livestream of the Bass Pro Tour’s Stage 4 tournament on ...

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 ...

The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest opened Thursday on the Delaware River and runs through Sunday. This year’s contest drew 1,157 registrants, up about 50 from last year, organizer ...

It’s not easy to win the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest as evidenced by the fact that the tournament started in 2011 has never had a repeat winner. However, that doesn’t stop American shad ...

Saman Shad was nervous writing her latest novel The Sex Lives of Married Women. In it, she writes openly — as the title suggests — about the trials of marriage, friendships and maintaining a ...

GRIFTON — There were Mo Crowns to go around during the expanded Grifton Shad Festival Pageant last weekend, and the town of Eat Mo Shad now has a new royal court. Marleigh Huggins became the ...

GRIFTON, N.C. (WITN) - One of the longest-running festivals in Eastern Carolina, the Grifton Shad Festival, o-“fish”-ally underway. The 53rd annual Shad Festival runs through Sunday and will ...

The annual threadfin shad spawn has begun on both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes and brings with it a number of new options and opportunities which the winter’s cold water period did not offer.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are gizzard shad and were killed by the harsh winter conditions. LAKE MILTON — Visitors to the lake might find a ...