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 ...

Undoubtedly, we are due for another cold snap. After all, it's Southeastern Wildlife Expo time. But the recent spell of warming weather, with average daytime temperatures hovering in the mid- to ...

Zunair Shafiq has been writing and gaming since he was a kid and now spends most of his time combining the two. He wants to play every game, good or bad, but has a soft corner for Simulation and ...

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 ...

After hitting it hard fishing for spring chinook through late April and well into the month of May, I like to flip the calendar to June, because the month brings with it some other fishing ...

Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have pro­duced stringers of game fish for decades, and they’ll continue to produce ...

Sport fishermen in the District have been whooping it up for the last week or so as big schools of American shad make their way upriver to spawn. Mike Alper, a retired advertising man from Western ...

The springtime brings the high, rocky banks at Ancarrow's Landing to life. As dependable as the first white dogwood blooms that dot the nearby tree line, men, women, buckets and blankets will dot the ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...