Hundreds of large native fish will be hoisted over the dam for their annual migration. American Shad spend most of their lives in the ocean and return to freshwater to spawn for nearly ten years.

Expect plenty of action from all of the more popular freshwater fish: large and smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleye, trout, shad, and muskie, along with steelhead, land-locked salmon ...

Numbers of twaite shad in the Seven declined ... said the fish were sometimes known as the May Fish because they choose that month to migrate to freshwater. For that reason it has chosen 1 May ...