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, ...

LAKE ELSINORE (KABC) -- Biologists are monitoring the water at Lake Elsinore to see if falling ash from the Airport Fire could possibly be contributing to fish dying off at the lake. Thousands of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Masses of spawning threadfin shad have begun running the shorelines and boat dock edges this week. This early morning event has ignited a feeding frenzy among the black bass clan. My recent clients ...