While it’s true in Stardew Valley that there are plenty of fish in the sea, it’s just as true for the river as well! Of those river fish is the Shad, but it’s not something you can catch all year ...

A quick scroll through the Delaware River Shad Fishing Reports Facebook page in recent days shows anglers from the Trenton area right through the Lehigh Valley region starting to haul in American shad ...

Anglers who look forward to taking part in the region's biggest shad fishing tournament, the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest, have a few new reasons to get excited for this year's event, set for April ...

Shad, the “poor man’s Salmon,” once populated the Hudson River estuary from New York Harbor north to Fort Edward. The silvery-blue fish, which can grow up to 30 inches, was an important food source in ...

Shad are running. Fishermen are lining the banks of the Connecticut, Merrimack, North, Palmer, Farmington, Chicopee and Westfield Rivers to catch the "poor man's salmon." Shad are supposed 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 ...

Every few minutes, an angler standing waist deep Wednesday in the frigid American River would holler, “YAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!” and his buddies would laugh. The angler would lean back, his rod bowed as his ...

HUDSON — Leo Bower remembers when the Hudson River was flush with shad. In the 1970s, Bower and his father kept a fishing shack in Shantytown, a collection of huts banged together from scrap metal and ...