It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...

It’s not easy to win the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest as evidenced by the fact that the tournament started in 2011 has never had a repeat winner. However, that doesn’t stop American shad angling ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is launching a comprehensive creel survey from March through July amid declining adult shad spawning runs.

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...

Steve Merserve, operator of the Lewis Fishery in Lambertville, and his crew of volunteers fish for Shad in the Delaware River on Thursday, April 7, 2011. Merserve is grandson of the late commercial ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! American shad were a major food source for early European settlers and Native ...

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 ...

A striped bass, possibly the first of the season caught from the surf, was landed in Beach Haven. Shad fishing is improving on the Delaware River, with a recent haul of 10 buck shad and 7 females.

Although shad reports have been slow thus far, that will change as the water temperature begins to rise. The peak is normally ...

Of all the fish that swim in the sea, few are as easy to catch as shad. That's because you don't have to go to sea to catch them. Each spring they come barreling back to the rivers where they were ...