Last week I alerted readers to the fact that the annual shad spawn has begun on our area lakes and promised this week to address how to keep those shad not just alive, but lively. Keeping shad lively ...

The annual threadfin shad spawn has begun on both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes and brings with it a number of new options and opportunities which the winter’s cold water period did not offer.

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...