Fall is a good time to stock forage species in ponds and lakes, according to Scott Jones, small impoundment extension specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. One reason for the timing ...

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, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife worked together to load more than one-quarter of a million forage fish into the rising waters of Lake Monticello.

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 ...

HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (May 18, 2017) – Recent rainfall has elevated the water at Greer’s Ferry Lake a good 7-8 feet above its normal level. Recent electrofishing by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ...

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 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 ...

It’s an Indiana Jones-worthy quest, and Steve “Montana” Fontana has accepted the challenge. For a bass fishermen, finding the perfect spinnerbait doesn’t seem to be as daunting as the pursuit of the ...