An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs are in their early stages, but some fish are being taken in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Shad return from the sea ...

More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...

Bony fish. Pine trees. Signs. Pols. Hacks. Dust. Beer. More signs. Speeches. More beer. Press. A thousand or so assorted Virginians. These are the unvarying components of the shad planking, during ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Here is a round-up of the latest outdoors news from across southwest and central Virginia. An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs ...