How to catch and cope with, Shad Fever By: Zach Hartman, Owner and Upper Potomac River Guide of Capitol City Fishing
Well, it is late-March, and we know what March is all about right? If you said basketball, then you are probably not a fisherman – not that there’s anything wrong with that – and if you are a fisherman, then you have probably never fished the annual Potomac River shad run. Every year, tidal fishermen delight at the prospect of annual game fish migrations. It starts with the yellow perch, then the white perch, followed by the Hickory and American shad.
Zach Hartman
Whether you are an avid fisherman or someone looking to connect with the sport of fishing, the annual Potomac River shad run has something to offer you...
Survey results are in and AnglerSurvey.com has announced the top fishing equipment for 2013.
The overall top rod is Shakespeare (the company also got honors for top ice rod – Orvis and Redington tied for best fly rod).
The Shakespeare Ugly Stik was named the 2013 best rod brand by AnglerSurvey.com. The ladies edition is shown (of course).
What’s your favorite fishing gear? Leave us a comment to tell us!
See the full list of winners below:
Merrill and Christie McGregor on Phantom Canyon
We’ve often been referred to as “the Sisters McGregor”. We work in the same professional field, share the same friends and are both avid outdoorswomen. Although we’re 10 years apart, we both have distinct memories of fishing off our grandparents dock in Charleston, camping with our parents and siblings in KY and WI, or hiking with friends across the southeast.
We’re also pretty inseparable – living together off and on for over 10 years –or at least we were until Christie, the older/wiser one, decided to up and move from South Carolina to Washington DC for a new job (note: the younger sister, Merrill, is NOT bitter and is DEFINITELY not harboring any resentment against her older sister who left ...
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Clayton & Molly Wrinn
I consider myself a pretty hard core hunter. If you look inside one of my three freezers, as well as the freezer in my office, they are overwhelmingly full of things I’ve harvested. Ground venison outweighs ground beef, and ducks and geese outnumber chicken nuggets by at least ten times. As far as fish, well, I can’t really remember the last time I actually went to a store and bought fish. I can honestly say that me and my wife and two kids eat more wild game than store bought food. No doubt.
And now that my kids are getting older, I’ve started thinking about what I hope will be a long, personal relationship with their natural world that they will develop with the mentoring of me, my wife and my inner circle of hunting and fishing buddies...
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