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 ...

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 ...

Once celebrated as a Revolutionary War savior, shad has become a rarity. That doesn’t stop its fans from seeking it out.

Connecticut has a state fish! The American Shad was once so important to coastal life that it was named our state fish in 2003. It was a crucial source of food for Native Americans and New World ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

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 ...

HADDAM >> The Haddam Shad Museum is housed in what was once the shad shack of Bill Maynard, a long-time Haddam shad fisherman. The museum is the only one in the country, its website says, “dedicated ...

OREGON CITY — The peak of the run is past, but when it comes to shad, this is prime time for anglers such as Larry Bowman. "It's nice because the females are starting to come in, the bigger ones," he ...

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