A black garden hose curled around his left foot, a thick braid of gold around hiswrist, Peter Alexandre is doing that frightening Ginsu thing chefs do to hone their knives.But he's no chef, and the ...

Fish dealers and chefs say the toughest fish to filet is shad. Andy Foehrkolb, an experienced cutter for Reliant Fish Co. in the wholesale seafood market in Jessup, is said to be one of the best ...

Charleston boasts a few fishmongers skilled enough to debone the tricky shad. "The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen" includes several shad recipes, including one for shad roe mousse sandwiched between ...

If you mention "shad" to most anglers, what comes to mind is the small baitfish that is a popular forage food for black bass and stripers. Gizzard and threadfin shad are small species that rarely ...

Shad are running. Fishermen are lining the banks of the Connecticut, Merrimack, North, Palmer, Farmington, Chicopee and Westfield Rivers to catch the "poor man's salmon." Shad are supposed to ...

Shad migrate up the Connecticut River every spring, some of them veering off at Windsor and entering the Farmington River. For more than a half-century John Cardillo met them near the mouth of the ...