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 ...

Dam removal improves spawning grounds for American shad and seems likely to improve survival rates for adult fish, juveniles and eggs -- but for different reasons. The researchers focused on a small ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

When it comes to procreating, one fish that returns to the Columbia River each year has it figured out. The American shad, an interloper to the Pacific Northwest, discovered early on that they were a ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

It's not exactly a secret, but the shad bite comes and goes so quickly on the TVA lakes that not a whole lot of fishermen ever get in on it. This year, it's running late due to the cold spring, but as ...

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, ...

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. — “It’s just unreal,” biologist Dave Knuth said as he pulled dozens of small, young-of-the-year crappies from a net on Wappapello Lake the morning of Oct. 24. “We’ve probably recorded ...

This past weekend's B.A.S.S. Elite event on Kentucky Lake should be instructive to North Alabama anglers, because Kentucky Lake is part of the same TVA system that includes Guntersville, Wheeler, ...

For most of their lives, shad – a group of fish in the the herring family – live in the ocean. But each spring – or so the story goes – as the shadbush bursts into bloom, they run up the Delaware Bay, ...

Research from North Carolina State University finds that dam removal improves spawning grounds for American shad and seems likely to improve survival rates for adult fish, juveniles and eggs – but for ...

Shad spawns can pay off big, but bass pros who win big money don’t go all in on them. To catch big bass all day during a shad spawn, you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. In an ...