It's taken almost three weeks into the season, but the first winter flounder catches on Shark River are starting to come in.

As the Hudson River waters warm in April, around the time ospreys return and shadbush blooms, millions of shad once headed ...

This move to the shallows triggers bass, sac-a-lait, catfish and even bream to move with the shad. After all, shad are the forage species for these predators, and it’s hard for these voracious eaters ...

Throughout their range, droves of anglers eagerly anticipated their arrival. Shad had much less to do with food than pure sport. These fish bring a saltwater fight to inland rivers. They make ...

Green filled milk jugs with shad fry and took them onto a transcontinental train. After a seven-day journey, he arrived in California with 10,000 little fish still alive, and he released them into the ...

In this particular instance, investigators believe that the fish kill happened because the gizzard shad fish did not have ...

Welcome to another edition of Outdoors Today. It never fails to amaze this author how a bit of interesting observations can ...

said the fish seen on the north shore, near the Mahoning Avenue ramp, are gizzard shad, and it is common to see them lying there after a heavy winter. “We’ve not really seen that in the past ...

Winter’s grip is loosening ... beat soaking forage native to the body of water you’re fishing. For Puryear, that’s gizzard shad. The fresher and bloodier the chunk, the more likely it ...

In the waning days of winter, a particular species of fish ill-suited for the Minnesota cold — the gizzard shad — is prone toward going belly-up on the Mississippi in the southern part of the ...

The Saugeen Ojibway Nation estimates as many as 4.5 million ‘gizzard shad’ were trapped and died in the plant this winter.