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 ...

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, ...

I saw literally every species of fish found in the lake,” except for the Clear Lake tule perch, Santana says. The ...

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 ...

"If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet." Japanese proverb Shad can account for up to 75 percent of a bass' diet when they are the main baitfish. To fully understand ...

Threadfin shad, like this one spit up by a white bass, fuel some of the fastest fishing of the year on lakes as predator species herd clouds of the forage fish.Picasa As white bass gorging on ...

RUSSELLVILLE — Anglers competing in the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament this week will find Lake Dardanelle much different than the one they fished in 2005 and 2007. The main difference is that the ...

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 ...

Formerly harvested in stupendous numbers (up to 700,000 metric tons per year), sardine populations finally crashed in the mid-1900s from rampant exploitation. At the time, they were ground into ...

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 ...