The American shad “season” on the Susquehanna River ended June 3 at Conowingo Dam. And this year’s results hit a new low. The season is the period during which an elevator at Conowingo lifts shad up ...

The number of empty spaces that I can see in the Fisherman's Park parking lot as I drive across the Conowingo Dam on Route 1 May 13 has me worried. When the shad are running thick up the Susquehanna ...

The shad run is now in full swing in the tidal Potomac River and other coastal tributaries in Maryland and Virginia. The spring spawning run begins in mid-March when water temperatures reach the ...

SACRAMENTO – The American shad is one of the most popular and yet most mysterious fish that anglers pursue on California’s Central Valley rivers in the spring. Shad are known for the great fights that ...

One of the most anticipated events of the post-Christmas season is the arrival of shad migrating up Lowcountry rivers to spawn. The peak of the shad run generally doesn’t occur until late February to ...

The Second Annual Shad Run 5K and 1 Mile Health Walk was held on a beautiful morning on Saturday, April 13. The event was once again sponsored by Stoneking Physical Therapy and Wellness Center with ...

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 ...

At daybreak Friday, a dozen boats bobbed silently in the channel at the Forks of the Delaware, their anchor lights occasionally catching a foamy splash from an unlucky shad being pulled from the ...

It's certainly not on par with, or even close to, the frenzied fun of the 1990s, but this year's Delaware River shad run is stacking up to be relatively decent. "From the catches along the river so ...