Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

BOISE, Idaho — Tight Lines 208 is dedicated to helping people become better anglers through education. The Tackle Tip is designed to give readers a crash course on a specific lure or gear item. Want ...

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 ...

It has been nearly four decades since Rusty Held was bitten by the American shad fishing bug. Introduced to angling for the anadromous fish by a good friend, the South Whitehall Township resident was ...

If there is a fish in this world that has it figured out it is the American shad. Given every obstacle in its way, the shad not only is surviving, it is thriving. When the runs of steelhead and salmon ...

I thought I detected a snub to Susquehanna River anglers when I read that the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently floated the idea of allowing catch-and-relase angling for American shad on ...