Tom Clifford fishes for shad under Chain Bridge, on the District side of the Potomac. He's holding a lure called a Nungesser, above which is a shad dart. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) Perspective ...

About this time of year a few friends and I travel down to the Columbia River to fish for shad. It has become an annual tradition. The reason I enjoy it so much is it is kind of old school fishing.

Now’s the time to rummage through your tackle box and take out all those off-brand lures you seldom use. The small spoons, spinners, jigs, and odd devices you got suckered into buying, or were given ...

Summertime and the fishing is easy. That is, when you can catch a mess and never make a single cast. Fishing at Beaver Lake can be that way when white bass, walleye and just about anything with fins ...

Winter angling on Norfork Lake can be one of the most productive periods of striper fishing. Beginning in mid-December thorough February the stripers will stick close to the old river channels near or ...

Striped bass hybrids, white and striped bass good on jigs, small lures and spoons below the dam, around docks, main lake and shorelines. Blue, channel and flathead catfish fair on chicken liver, cut ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

Shoreline anglers have to do some long-distance casting to get at migrating shad. That makes the use of certain types of equipment, lighter lines and better casting skills a must. One of the main ...

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

The Norfork Lake striper fishing is hot right now. The stripers are feeding on flats in the 30 to 40-foot range around Crystal Cove and then up to Fout's. Large schools of shad are roaming the flats, ...