Spadefish look like aquarium angelfish, except grown to outsized proportions as if by some freak distortion of genetics like fictional tales of errant radiation told in old black-and-white horror ...

Anglers fishing the Chesapeake Bay never know what they might catch. Leo Olivarez can attest to that. Olivarez, a utility contractor company supervisor from Virginia Beach, had one of those moments ...

It wasn’t too long ago that rod-and-reel anglers struggled with finding a way to catch the angelfish-looking species that spearfishers were bringing to the docks in healthy numbers. Spadefish – a ...

If there's anything hotter than July temperatures, it might be catching spadefish off the South Carolina coast. "The spades are hot," West Ashley resident Jamye Hurteau said in sharing a photo of her ...

The rotund spadefish that Ronald Murphy caught in the Chesapeake Bay the past weekend was so big that when he held it up for picture taking it appeared that he was heaving a spare tire chest high. For ...

Spadefish have invaded the inshore reefs from Ocean Isle to Topsail with many of the fish in the 3- to 4-pound range. Captain Andy Fisher reported catching seven spadefish in two hours and losing many ...

Limits to help protect two popular South Carolina fish species were recently added to South Carolina’s fish and game laws. Legislators passed catch and minimum size limits for both Atlantic spadefish ...

Ronald Murphy (left) and Capt. Allan King posed for this picture, then took off to weigh their record spadefish catch.

- deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters ...