The rainy spring had swollen the Cape Fear River to flood level several times, leaving anglers to wonder whether fishing was productive. Rainwater creates runoff that carries sediments from farming ...

When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, there are only two things that are guaranteed: The fish are going to make their annual migratory spawning run up river each spring, and the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shad is a fairly healthy fish that's low in mercury and high in omega-3 fatty acids and can be delicious if prepared the right way ...

Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

Fishing for hickory and white —or American — shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in the mid-Atlantic. In our area, the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which includes ...

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 ...

The first basic rule of fishing is: fish where the fish are. So, if you knew that there were over a million fish swimming in a nearby river right this very moment, wouldn’t you go fishing to try to ...

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 ...

Durban beachfront has had some good shad catches in the late afternoons. Some pompano are still being caught during the early ...

A West Michigan angler broke a 20-year state record when he reeled in a massive gizzard shad in April.