Claim to fame: Although the gizzard shad’s tasteless flesh has no “skillet appeal” for anglers and the fish are seldom caught, this fish plays an important role in Missouri fishing.

Match up Shad are maybe the best known bass forage, with myriad lures imitating them. The two most popular species are gizzard shad and threadfin shad. While they are very similar, there are a few ...

Do they depend on eating these migrating waterfowl to survive? Actually, it's because of the large numbers of gizzard shad - a baitfish found in Onondaga Lake that reaches lengths of 10 to 14 ...

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.

The fish kind. A fish with a gizzard, more appropriately named gizzard shad. They, and their cousin, the treadfin, make wonderful striper bait, as was recently proven by two anglers fishing the ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- Sturgeon in the Lake Winnebago system are feasting on a fish called gizzard shad, according to a Department of Natural Resources survey. The DNR examined the stomachs of 87 fish ...