NOAA awards $7.9 million for multi-year project to reopen migratory pathways, access to healthy habitat for American shad, ...

hickory shad, alewife and blueback herring are migratory species that spend most of their lives in saltwater, but must return to freshwater to spawn. For the eels, it’s all about free access to ...

Dave Armstrong is planning to go hunting when the weather cools off, but he actually hopes he doesn’t find an abundance of ...

We must move fast to secure clean, healthy water for the future. But to do so, we need three things: ambition, investment and ...

The calendar might say it's fall, but the thermometer still reads summertime and despite the unseasonably warm temperatures ...

He’s also an avid angler, and constantly in search of trophy muskellunge, one of the biggest challenges in freshwater fishing ... as swim baits in bluegill or shad patterns, or frog lures ...

That’s been due to goals under the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model, an EPA process developed in the early 1990s, that ...

Bennett agreed, stating that in the past, it was possible to catch 20 American shad in an hour using a hook and line. However, despite the new fish lift at the Lockwood Dam in Waterville ...

Freshwater striped bass prey mostly on shad, herring, and other baitfish. A well-stocked fly box should include a variety of patterns designed to imitate them. Matching the hatch is also key for ...

The swim shad is one of the few lures that can be ... which was built for freshwater species and couldn’t always handle the strain of large stripers in the salt. The Atom 40 had a large profile ...