A few days ago, Dennis Covert of Columbia was carefully dismantling his fly-fishing gear alongside Deer Creek in Harford County and wondering about the shad fishing. Was he too early? He was also ...

It seems there are many books on tying flies for trout on the market, but few dealing exclusively with warmwater species. To construct a fly to be used to fish for pike or bass or American shad, tiers ...

I love fly-fishing for shad. Many times shad have saved me from going fishless when targeting striped bass. They hit the fly readily, fight hard and look kind of like little tarpon. I’ve caught them ...

* GLAD ABOUT SHAD: The National Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited on Wednesday will host a meeting of all things shad, "The ABCs of the D.C. Area's Spring Shad Runs," at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase ...