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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If history is any teacher, we will have another three weeks until 2025’s shad spawn on our local reservoirs comes to an end, and with it one of the two best windows of fishing opportunity of the year.

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 was time for one of those False River trips, an annual adventure to gasp at one of Mother Nature’s wonders. As noted Thursday, the shad spawn is on in this near-to-Baton Rouge oxbow lake — it’s ...

COLUMBIA, Pa. -- Once, American shad swam up Atlantic coastal rivers in huge masses each spring, when instinct -- or some inner compass -- lured them by the millions from the ocean to their ancestral ...

This year’s run of American shad continues to tease anglers. Some days they hit, some days they don’t. Some days the river is raging, some days it’s not. When the run first started in the lower ...