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 ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Their annual spawning run from far out in the Atlantic is historically significant: it provided a ...

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 ...

Spring chinook fishing was slowing down. The few crabs being caught were watery and thin. Even the low tides weren’t low enough. And so dawn last Thursday found me on the Columbia River fishing for ...

Striped bass are prowling the south half of the lake. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends fishing in the Prairie Creek area and farther south into the White and War Eagle river tributaries. The ...

Stocking a tackle box for bass fishing may seem like a daunting task for someone new to the game and just beginning to assemble an arsenal. It can also get expensive pretty quickly, especially if you ...

Delicious, but delicate, that's the way to think of Oklahoma's threadfin and gizzard shad. Shad are to Oklahoma's striped bass as Frito pies and cheeseburgers are to Oklahoma fishermen. The silvery ...

It’s no secret that Texas is home to a bounty of reservoirs and rivers, and many of them are loaded with whiskered fish. Three sub-species are recognized as sport fish — flatheads, blues and channel ...