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 every spring, I find myself wondering: How do they do it? I still can’t quite wrap my head around how exactly these smallish fish make such an arduous journey, perhaps migrations of a ...
When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...