BONNEVILLE DAM, Columbia River, Wash. — There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest’s mightiest river by the millions. Shad, ...

BONNEVILLE DAM, Columbia River, Wash. – There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest’s mightiest river by the millions. Shad, ...

Summer runs of shad, sockeye salmon, and summer steelhead are drawing big crowds below Bonneville Dam. The upstream movement has been okay for sockeye, poor for steelhead, and very good for American ...

After hitting it hard fishing for spring chinook through late April and well into the month of May, I like to flip the calendar to June, because the month brings with it some other fishing ...

Although shad reports have been slow thus far, that will change as the water temperature begins to rise. The peak is normally ...

Buzz Ramsey of Yakima Bait attempts to net a spring chinook on the Columbia River. It was announced Wednesday, May 29, 2024, that the spring chinook season has been extended from June 1-15. (Terry ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

Shad spawns can pay off big, but bass pros who win big money don’t go all in on them. To catch big bass all day during a shad spawn, you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. In an ...