Shad – both gizzard and threadfin – are a main forage species for bass. They spawn at night, through dawn and sunrise, and into the early morning.

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If bait fish like gizzard shad die off more, the other fish will be hungrier and bite better during the spring and summer fishing season. “They’re the number one prey food,” Wolfe said.

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologists found gizzard shad in Scott State Fishing Lake in August 2022. (Courtesy KDWP) The biologists say the gizzard shad averaged 5.7 inches ...

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 ...

He says the gizzard shad either came through natural immigration into the spring-fed lake during the high flow-through event in May 2021 or through unauthorized public stocking.

One of thousands of dead gizzard shad that washed ashore in Oneida Lake last week in a mysterious die-off event. Shad are an important prey species for walleye and other fish popular with anglers.

According to the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, the dying species are Gizzard Shad and White Perch. The Fish & Boat Commission wants people to know the fish are not sick.

Events like this happen every winter in bodies of water that contain American Gizzard Shad. Drastic changes in temperature can also contribute to this.

The gizzard shad in Minnesota are at the northern-most reach of their native range, making them a fish out of water, so to speak, during Minnesota winters, where they tend to fend poorly against ...

UPDATED: July 6, 2023 at 8:10 PM EDT American shad — fish that migrate from oceans to rivers every spring to spawn — are making a comeback in New England’s longest coastal river without dams.