It came as no surprise that the winning catch in this year’s Forks of the Delaware Shad Fishing Tournament was caught on a “shad spoon.” Bill Gordon of Media hooked his 7.90-pound roe shad on the ...

The temptation for a lot of American shad anglers putting in at Easton or Phillipsburg is to stay around the Delaware River's confluence with the Lehigh River. Or they go upstream, so if their boat ...

EASTON – Each spring, the annual Forks of the Delaware Shad Fishing Tournament draws people from throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond to the waters of the Delaware River to try their hand at ...

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 ...

Catching American shad on the flooded waters of the Delaware River is a daunting task. Boat ramps are under water, debris is floating everywhere and water currents are extremely dangerous. However, a ...

Shoreline anglers have to do some long-distance casting to get at migrating shad. That makes the use of certain types of equipment, lighter lines and better casting skills a must. One of the main ...

Striped bass are scattered from Rocky Branch park to Beaver Dam. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said good live baits for stripers include brood minnows, sunfish or shad. Flutter spoons ...

The ninth annual Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest was the biggest one yet, once you discount the size of the winning fish. A total of 1,072 people entered this year’s tournament on the Delaware River, ...