Length: Adults are commonly nine to 14 inches in length, but specimens up to 20 inches have been found. Diet: Gizzard shad feed on microscopic invertebrates (zooplankton), free-floating algae and ...

Match up Shad are maybe the best known bass forage, with myriad lures imitating them. The two most popular species are gizzard shad and ... bass are only eating two-inch shad, a four-incher ...

He estimates that in this year’s catch about 8 to 10 metric tons of phosphorous and over 20 metric tons of nitrogen will come out of the lake in the bodies of the gizzard shad. “If the same ...

He uses a pair of small No. 4 hooks and 20-pound test monofilament line for leader. The rig is taken deep with a 1-ounce sinker and baited with ½-inch by 2-inch strips of cut gizzard shad flesh. “It’s ...

The rub is that there’s also an unusually large number of gizzard shad, their favorite food, all around. “Your lure is just one of tens of thousands of baitfish in front of them,” he said.

It wasn't a gizzard out ... on the number of shad being contained. But the stripers like them. "They are striper candy. And the hawg stripers cannot resist a 12-inch gizz," he relates.

It’s just the gizzard shad, conveniently and reliably perishing so others might live. The shad seemingly exist to breed and be eaten. They also don’t tolerate cold well — this is the ...

Fall is upon us. With longer nights and cold fronts, the leaves begin to turn, the waters cool and the fish move shallow. One predictable pattern this time of year is the migration of shad into ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation reports Riley Nolan of Fenton became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he gigged a gizzard shad on the Big River in Jefferson County.

Thousands and thousands of gizzard shad are dead and anglers in the area are wondering why. Fish experts say this kill is just part of winter. Just downstream from Lock No. 5, fish are frozen in time.