The full moon of May signals channel catfish are gathering to spawn around northern Ohio. Jim Horn, left, and his brother, ...

Learn where and how MLF pro David Walker catches bass on shallow offshore shell bars during the spring shad spawn on Tennessee River reservoirs.

The Children’s Fishing Derbies are Saturday. There will be prizes for the kids catching the biggest and smallest fish, and ...

Rogue thunderstorms are just about the only threat to the likelihood you and I will experience a lot of successful fishing trips over the next few weeks. Recent rain has pushed local reservoirs over ...

Shad is a very tender fish,which in warm weather is generally ... It had, however, been observed in Ohio, for three or four years, and in Missouri and South Illinois. It has gradually been on ...

As time passes, Virginians are further and further removed from a time when American shad were culturally and economically relevant.

If history is any teacher, we will have another three weeks until 2025’s shad spawn on our local reservoirs comes to an end, ...

Those factors contributed to the bait’s early success, but Gibson says the Swim Shad ultimately took off because, quite simply, it caught loads of fish. Not long after the lure hit shelves ...

“It can be 50 fish,” Mr. Meserve said, “or nothing at all.” At its peak, the fishery took in more than 9,000 shad annually. Today, that number is in the hundreds.Credit...Bryan Anselm for ...