While talking with a couple of Lake Mead fishermen recently, the subject turned to gizzard shad. Since they showed up in Lake Mead in 2007, gizzards have displaced threadfin shad as both the primary ...

From Northern Florida to Maine, American and hickory shad leave the ocean and pile into coastal rivers every spring to spawn. I’d argue that every East Coast angler should learn how to catch shad. In ...

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Each year the shad make their way up the Delaware River to replenish their species. They are a key ingredient in the forage base in the river and their runs, successful or unsuccessful, are tied to ...

Tom Clifford fishes for shad under Chain Bridge, on the District side of the Potomac. He's holding a lure called a Nungesser, above which is a shad dart. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) Perspective ...

The earliest occupations in Gloucester County were agriculture and fishing. Agriculture is still important in the county, but fishing is no longer a major occupation. Shad fishing was one of the ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

It’s well documented that the American shad that ascend the Delaware River each spring to spawn are a species of concern. The population is down significantly from where it was just a few decades ago ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...