According to legend and lore, it’s the fish that may have made America possible. As the tale goes, Gen. George Washington’s ragtag Continental Army was on the brink of starvation at its encampment ...

More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...

August is back-to-school time across Texas. This is not greeted universally with great enthusiasm and anticipation by students heading to classrooms across the state. Students of Texas angling are ...

With the lure of increased prizes and a drawing for a 14-foot shad boat, officials for the seventh annual Forks of the Delaware Shad Fishing Tournament yesterday promised the best tournament yet. The ...

The American shad, Alosa sapidissima, like the striped bass, is an anadromous fish. It is a member of the family of herrings. Prior to the late 1800s, shad were found in almost all river systems along ...

After three hours of fishing in a pontoon boat on the Delaware River yesterday, the only thing the mayors of Easton, Bethlehem, and Allentown caught was a good time. Mayors Sal Panto of Easton, Ken ...

BRUNSWICK - New regulations will govern where commercial fishermen can harvest shad in Georgia. The state's commercial shad season will open at 6 a.m. Jan. 1 and continue through midnight March 31.

Beaver Lake: Striped bass are biting on the south end of the lake, reports Jon Conklin, fishing guide. Try for stripers from Monte Ne south into the War Eagle and White River tributaries. Shad is the ...

Words have meanings, some of them unintended. As an outdoor writer, I’ve try to avoid the latter and instruct others to do the same. A case in point was a recent headline about shad fishing at Oregon ...