Not many of us are willing to invest over $60 in a single lure, but Captain Mike Carter is so convinced of the prowess of the Bull Shad Wake Bait that he has a tackle box full of the massive lures.

When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, there are only two things that are guaranteed: The fish are going to make their annual migratory spawning run up river each spring, and the ...

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 ...

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Call it a poor man’s salmon. Every year from February to June, the American shad run like 20-inch silver bullets up the east coast, pouring in from the Atlantic and swimming up rivers from Florida to ...