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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you have ever seen a troop of 12-year-old Boy Scouts descend on a Dutch oven full of peach cobbler, then you probably have a good idea of what a striper boil looks like. Striped bass may not wear a ...

It was an especially bad morning to be a threadfin shad - not that any morning is particularly pleasant when you are the freshwater equivalent of a silvery potato chip in a world filled with hungry ...

Fishing season has returned to Lexington Reservoir, and the state has issued guidelines that people can follow to know how much fish is safe to eat. The guidelines are based on mercury and PCB ...

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 ...

When longtime Lake Powell fisheries biologist Wayne Gustaveson looks back on the the 2014 fishing year, he might be thankful for a silvery little fish that sustains the lake's entire food pyramid.

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...