It’s hard to leave the water, especially when the fish are snapping. So I’ve determined the pronouncement “just one more cast” is merely folly, a falsehood built on self delusion. In nearly 30 years ...

Sedrick Neinhuis set a new Michigan state record last month by catching the largest gizzard shad Michigan has seen in 30 ...

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, switching ...

I thought I detected a snub to Susquehanna River anglers when I read that the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently floated the idea of allowing catch-and-relase angling for American shad on ...

After a record-setting year in 2021, the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest is back for its 11th run with thousands in cash and prizes and a brand-new website that makes it easier than ever for people to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, retired Massachusetts Wildlife magazine editor Peter Mirick and I fished for shad with good friend and Merrimack River guide, Roger Aziz. Mirick, using a white dart with no weight and no ...

It has been nearly four decades since Rusty Held was bitten by the American shad fishing bug. Introduced to angling for the anadromous fish by a good friend, the South Whitehall Township resident was ...

Sedrick Neinhuis caught the record-breaking fish in the Grand River in Kent County on April 22. The fish weighed 4.45 pounds ...

I’M NOT MUCH of a fish counter, except for when it comes to false albacore—and even then, the action can get so crazy that I forget if I’ve landed four and lost three or vice versa or some equation ...