When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...

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 ...

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. — “It’s just unreal,” biologist Dave Knuth said as he pulled dozens of small, young-of-the-year crappies from a net on Wappapello Lake the morning of Oct. 24. “We’ve probably recorded ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

For many bass fisheries across the country, the post-spawn is upon us. This means fish have made their beds, laid their eggs, and tiny little fry are beginning to hatch. The good news for anglers is ...

It was time for one of those False River trips, an annual adventure to gasp at one of Mother Nature’s wonders. As noted Thursday, the shad spawn is on in this near-to-Baton Rouge oxbow lake — it’s ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

You know it’s spring in tidewater Maryland when, along with forsythia, blooming cherry trees and butter-colored daffodils, the American shad — Alosa sapidissima — course up the Chesapeake Bay from ...

Maybe it was the snow and deep-freeze cold front of a couple of months ago. Maybe, in a couple of cases, it was the result of fall-into-winter drawdown of lake levels. Maybe it’s a succession of cold ...