A freshly caught shad is shown off to visitors of the annual Lambertville Shad Festival. (Ed Murray/The Star Ledger ) According to an old legend among the Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada and northern ...

LAMBERTVILLE, NJ — When it comes to river ... up their fishery to the public offering a unique glimpse into the shad fishing story. For the past 20 years, Steve Meserve and his family have ...

LAMBERTVILLE — A revamped original art ... expanded specialty food sales and posters featuring the o’fish’l Shad Fest T-shirt design are among the changes in store for visitors at the ...

few can rival Shad Fest, Lambertville's springtime celebration of fish, fun, and family. This weekend, the Greater Lambertville Chamber of Commerce stages the festival in the City of Lambertville ...

Shad fishing is a family tradition Fred Lewis ... In a fitting ceremony, Lewis, 88, was buried in Lambertville, N.J., on Saturday, opening day of the 23rd annual Lambertville Shad Festival.

Lambertville hosted the first Shad Fest in 1981 to celebrate the annual ... demonstrations by the Lewis family. They have been fishing the river since 1888, and hold the only remaining ...

so for a while it seemed like shad fishing was becoming a lost art.” According to Scheel, in his early days, it wasn’t uncommon to see 80 or more boats anchored below the bridge in Lambertville on a ...

LAMBERTVILLE – For the 35th year in a row ... The occasion was born in the spring, as the shad fish traveled up the Delaware River and residents wandered through town embracing the arts.

And if you want to taste this fish at it’s finest, now’s the time to buy tickets for the Bethlehem or Lambertville shad festivals. The annual Bethlehem event is always a sell-out and ...

in Lambertville, New Jersey. (Andrew S. Lewis/NJ Spotlight) Despite the lean decades, and as the other shad fisheries on the river systematically closed down, Bill Lewis kept fishing. “My ...