Any trout fishermen attempting to descend the icy roads leading down to the White River below Bull Shoals last weekend could have pulled off some Winter Olympics moves with their vehicles. However, ...

I’M NOT MUCH of a fish counter, except for when it comes to false albacore—and even then, the action can get so crazy that I forget if I’ve landed four and lost three or vice versa or some equation ...

Andy Eller and Will Harrell love to fly fish. One of the highlights of their fishing season is chasing hickory shad during their annual migratory spawning run from the Atlantic Ocean up the Roanoke ...

The master fly fisherman moved with stealth and purpose along the cold, swift-flowing Yuba River, putting himself in position for the perfect cast to a school of unsuspecting American shad. That’s ...

American shad – the gamefish not the bait – are no strangers to this region. In Colonial times, vast migratory runs proceeded up the Schuylkill River and it’s an historical anecdote that in 1778 an ...

EACH SPRING when the dogwoods blossom in April, the hickory shad run up the Maryland tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. In particular, Deer Creek, the Patuxent River and the main stem of the ...

LAST SPRING, I spent a few days fly-fishing for hickory shad on Deer Creek in Harford County. My good friend Larry Siemiet was visiting from Colorado, and he was interested in giving shad fishing a ...

A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably recognize if you are among that group of now middle-aged fly fishers who took up the sport in the 1970s. We called it the “spider.” ...

—and even then, the action can get so crazy that I forget if I’ve landed four and lost three or vice versa or some equation that only approximates that. And then I forget that I’m trying to keep count ...