MONETA, Va. (WFXR) — This is the time of year to target striped bass in shallow water at Smith Mountain Lake. That is because the fish move in close after dark to feast on the thousands of gizzard ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take a moment today to thank a lowly fish called the gizzard shad. The silvery, 15-inch creature has two claims to fame: It feeds fish that people enjoy catching, like blue catfish, and it helps ...

Wyoming has a new gizzard shad record thanks to the efforts of 15-year-old Torrington-area angler Dawson Reifschneider. He caught his record fish out of the North Platte River near Torrington on June ...