American Shad

National Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited's "Shad Night 2024" is here. The popular online event's full schedule is as follows for the evening of February 21st: 7:30  Welcome from hosts Rob Catalanotto and Mark Binsted.7:35 Reports from Fletcher’s Boathouse and local fly shops. 7:45 Review of last year’s Potomac shad run with John Kuriawa and Mark Binsted. 8:00 Discussion of 2023 American shad abundance surveys by Matt Jargowsky of Maryland DNR, and an overview of shad fishery management by James Boyle of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. 8:15 Featured speaker Jim Cummins, retired from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, on the current status of American shad in the Potomac and challenges facing the restoration. 8:45 Panel of “grizzled veterans” responds to previously submitted questions on catching hickory and American shad at Fletcher’s; plus additional freewheeling conversations. (Deadline for questions is TONIGHT; submit here.) 9:30 Event ends—we will see you…