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, ...

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 ...

Unless they show up on your fish finder screen or start breaking water in front of your boat, you seldom give shad a second thought. After all, when it comes to quality fisheries in Texas they have ...

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 ...

Fishermen become bird watchers during winter at Beaver Lake. Gulls dive-bombing the surface and feeding on threadfin shad tell anglers that schools of striped bass or black bass may lurk below, also ...

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.

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.

Truthfully, unless they show up on your fish finder screen or start breaking water in front of your boat, you seldom give shad a second thought. After all, when it comes to quality fisheries in Texas ...