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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who has fished for American shad on the Delaware River for any length of time knows shad numbers are not what they once ...

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 ...

American shad have long been prized in the Delaware River Basin for their meat and roe. The native Lenape people hosted festivals celebrating the fish. In 1778, legend has it, George Washington’s ...

Anyone who has fished for American shad on the Delaware River for any length of time knows shad numbers are not what they once were. In fact, populations of the anadromous fish are down in almost ...