SACRAMENTO – The American shad is one of the most popular and yet most mysterious fish that anglers pursue on California’s Central Valley rivers in the spring. Shad are known for the great fights that ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Their annual spawning run from far out in the Atlantic is historically significant: it provided a ...

American Shad Struggle To Survive In Susquehanna Backwater It’s Rare For This Fish To Appear So Far North, And Now The Shad And Other Types Of Fish Are Dying In A Pond Formed By River Overflow.

As spring nears and warmer days loom on the horizon, a number of area anglers are turning their thoughts to fishing on the Delaware River for American shad. It’s a species that is popular draw for ...

According to the Holyoke Gas & Electric Robert E. Barrett Fishway, more than 3,000 shad went through the Holyoke Fish Lift recorded between April 22nd and April 29th. Over the past 10 years, 5.5 ...

ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released the draft Recovery Plan for Hudson River American shad (PDF) for public comment last week and is open to public comment ...

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 angling ...

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

After hitting it hard fishing for spring chinook through late April and well into the month of May, I like to flip the calendar to June, because the month brings with it some other fishing ...