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 ...

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 ...

Last week I alerted readers to the fact that the annual shad spawn has begun on our area lakes and promised this week to address how to keep those shad not just alive, but lively. Keeping shad lively ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...