Ever since I was a little kid who used to ride his bike to Liberty Reservoir, one of the most effective lures in my scant arsenal of baits was the shad dart. For those of you who don’t know, the shad ...

A first look at LIVETARGET’s new topwater Commotion Shad lure. Built to target apex predators like bass, pike, and musky for the top water explosive eats. Catching fish on topwater lures is among the ...

The world’s largest shad swimbait proves to be the only bait giant fish will consistently strike during testing.

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

So how do these anglers manage to snag the best fish week-after-week? It's all in the bait. Some of the anglers who submit photos were kind enough to reveal the baits they use for their catches, and ...

Gizzard shad are not a gamefish nor are they considered edible by humans, but for bass anglers their life-cycle takes on special interest in spring, when they spawn from the end of April to late June ...

The annual shad run is under way. Anglers have been scoring in the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers for about a week now. Towns bordering the Connecticut River east of Hartford are gearing up for ...

More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...