The Georgia Department of Natural Resource's Wildlife Resources Division posted about the record on social media. Timmy Woods of Kite Georgia reeled in a 2 lb, 10 oz hickory shad, according to the ...

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 ...

A Georgia angler has reeled a state-record hickory shad from the same river that had produced the previous record. Timmy Woods of Kite, Ga., was fishing recently on the Ogeechee River when the 2-pound ...

In just over one year, the same river produces two state record hickory shad. Timmy Woods of Kite, Ga. was out fishing on the Ogeechee River when he reeled in the new state record hickory shad. His ...

A true sign of spring in Chesapeake Country, the American and hickory shad run is off to a great start throughout much of these anadromous fishes spawning range. Usually, hickories show up in the ...

An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs are in their early stages, but some fish are being taken in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Shad return from the sea ...

Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

Fishing for hickory and white —or American — shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in the mid-Atlantic. In our area, the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which includes ...

A few years back, we were fly fishing in the shallows at the mouth of the Housatonic when the angler standing next to me saw his line become taut. We figured it was either a small striped bass or ...

—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 ...

A Georgia angler has reeled a state-record hickory shad from the same river that had produced the previous record. Timmy Woods of Kite, Ga., was fishing recently on the Ogeechee River when the 2-pound ...