New England, and Massachusetts in particular, is home to an amazing migration of the sea’s bounty to inland. You may be think that it is a hidden salmon run kept secret from the masses by government conspiracy? Well you would be wrong. According to the lowest dam’s fish lift on the Connecticut River, a whopping

Noted Swift angler Gary Metras emailed and invited me out for shad fishing. I’m very grateful to him for his generosity. I had never fished for shad but had heard much about their fighting power and that their spawning season was very short. So, I was really excited when Gary reached out. He told me