He's holding a lure called a Nungesser, above which is a shad dart. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) Perspective by John Kelly Tuesday after work I met Tom Clifford so he could show me two bits of ...

He has created what he calls the world’s largest and smallest shad darts. Weighing more than 100 pounds, the concrete lure which sits in front of Gotzon’s stand is too heavy to be used.

But the two of them didn’t land one fish. “The color of the shad dart lure makes a difference,” Lorentzen said. “Believe me, for two weeks, I’ve been picking the old-timers’ brains.

While shad darts were once the lure of choice, today Held -- like most shad anglers -- primarily uses flutter spoons, lures that have a slight bend in them to give them constant motion while drift ...

What they will do, however, is smack a shad dart, grub, or flutter spoon out of annoyance. In order to annoy them, that lure has got to be right in their faces. As they advance upriver, your offering ...

Popular dart colors are red and white ... so the belly of the line whips the fly or lure into the shad with a sideways presentation. Once the fly or lure is directly downstream, mend the line ...

Line should be strong enough to lean into a hard-driving fish, but light enough to break off a shad dart or lure when we inevitably hang up on the bottom. Bait-casting tackle is popular ...

Popular dart colors are red and white ... so the belly of the line whips the fly or lure into the shad with a sideways presentation. Once the fly or lure is directly downstream, mend the line ...

The most important of these is to increase the size of your darts or spoons. Obviously, the larger the lure, the better chance the shad will have of seeing it, especially in dingier water.

He has created what he calls the world’s largest and smallest shad darts. Weighing more than 100 pounds, the concrete lure which sits in front of Gotzon’s stand is too heavy to be used.

If there is a fish in this world that has it figured out it is the American shad. Given every obstacle in its way, the shad not only is surviving, it is thriving. When the runs of steelhead and ...

I've never forgotten my first shad fishing adventure ... "If you are anchored in the middle of the river, you can cast your lure straight back. If you're closer to the bank, cast out and retrieve ...