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 ...

The single most sought after food source for the gamefish in our local reservoirs is the shad. We have two species of shad in both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes — gizzard shad and threadfin shad.

For nearly 32 years, Jim Goff has been a fixture on Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, where he has spent his “retirement” years guiding fishermen in search of striped bass. That makes him not only the ...

Delicious, but delicate, that's the way to think of Oklahoma's threadfin and gizzard shad. Shad are to Oklahoma's striped bass as Frito pies and cheeseburgers are to Oklahoma fishermen. The silvery ...

Another Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest is drawing to a close on the banks of the Delaware River, the Lehigh Valley’s annual contribution to the wide, wide world of American shad fishing. Twenty-five ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

It's a big-time fishing party when word gets out that heavyweight striped bass are biting at Beaver Lake. The fishing grapevine has been ripe with reports of fabulous striper fishing during autumn and ...