Shad can account for up to 75 percent of a bass' diet when they are the main baitfish. Gizzards will eat detritus off the lake bottom when mature and can grow very quickly, while threadfin are ...

Gizzard shad are not a gamefish nor are they considered edible by humans, but for bass anglers their life-cycle takes on special interest in spring, when they spawn from the end of April to late ...

Based on preliminary sampling, the effort to eliminate gizzard shad from Lake Sugema, one of southeast Iowa's most popular lakes, appears to have worked. Last November, the Department of Natural ...

The St. Johns River Water Management District has reinstated an ambitious project to remove the prolific American gizzard shad from the waters of Lake Apopka. As early as this weekend 30 commercial… ...

It’s just the gizzard shad, conveniently and reliably perishing so others might live. Gizzard shad die-off rite of spring Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

While talking with a couple of Lake Mead fishermen recently, the subject turned to gizzard shad. Since they showed up in Lake Mead in 2007, gizzards have displaced threadfin shad as both the ...

Oneida Lake walleye tough to lure due to large numbers of gizzard shad . Published: Oct. 25, 2012, 9:37 p.m. By . David Figura | [email protected]; Mike Greenlar/The Post-Standard.

Franklin Pearce, 72, never thought he would taste gizzard shad caught in Lake Apopka. But on Monday, he did. And he liked it. “I never knew you could eat shad,” said Pearce, taking anot… ...

Authorities believe they have caught the culprit of the Rivanna River fish kill: heat. Dozens of gizzard shad turned up dead at the foot of the dam at the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir on Monday ...

CHICAGO (STMW) - A bizarre scene is evolving on the Chicago lakefront, with Canada geese and mallard ducks gulping down dead or dying gizzard shad. A major die-off of what appears to be the 2010 ...

Chronicle/Ken StevensA Michigan Department of Natural Resources official said a hard winter likely is what caused a large fish kill on Mona Lake. Thousands of gizzard shad were found along the shore.

To fully understand something, bass in this case, you must also understand the things around it, like what it eats, where it lives and its behavior.