Outdoors: It’s open season now that shad are over the dam

When you gotta go, you gotta go — even if you’re a fish or a bird. May 22 was such a day for our migrating shad. In just one day — actually less than a day since closure of the fish passage was at 8 p.m. — an incredible 54,000 shad went over the Connecticut River’s Robert E. Barrett Fishway at the Holyoke Dam. Fishing that day on the Connecticut was phenomenal. […]