Each year around this time in the spring, threadfin shad, the primary forage fish on Belton Lake, begin to spawn. Like many things in nature, the threadfin shad spawn follows a bell-shaped curve, ...

LAKE ELSINORE (KABC) -- Biologists are monitoring the water at Lake Elsinore to see if falling ash from the Airport Fire could possibly be contributing to fish dying off at the lake. Thousands of ...

Staff at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission hatcheries throughout the state work in the colder months to improve future fishing conditions. More than 4 million threadfin shad have been raised in ...

The annual threadfin shad spawn has begun on both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes and brings with it a number of new options and opportunities which the winter’s cold water period did not offer.

OAK VIEWThe big bass swam out of some murky water, eyeing a threadfin shad like an hors d’oeuvre on a tray. After a moment of stalking, it finally decided to devour the tasty tidbit, opening its ...

While talking with a couple of Lake Mead fishermen recently, the subject turned to gizzard shad. Since they showed up in Lake Mead in 2007, gizzards have displaced threadfin shad as both the primary ...

It wasn't a gizzard out of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Wouldn't find it in a giblet gravy. Still, a "gizz" is very popular, particularly among inland lake fishermen. No, not the bird kind of gizzard.

It's not exactly a secret, but the shad bite comes and goes so quickly on the TVA lakes that not a whole lot of fishermen ever get in on it. This year, it's running late due to the cold spring, but as ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...