Each year a natural pageant takes place throughout the fresh waters of the middle and eastern United States. Unlike the awe-inspiring thousand-mile journeys of birds and butterflies, or the ...

Claim to fame: Although the gizzard shad’s tasteless flesh has no “skillet appeal” for anglers and the fish are seldom caught, this fish plays an important role in Missouri fishing. Young gizzard shad ...

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 primary ...

Many anglers are aware that gizzard shad and other non-native forage fish species are present in larger water bodies within Wisconsin, but the impacts these fish have on fishing success may be a ...

For nearly 32 years, Jim Goff has been a fixture on Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, where he has spent his “retirement” years guiding fishermen in search of striped bass. That makes him not only the ...

It wasn't a gizzard out of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Wouldn't find it in a giblet gravy. Still, a "gizz" is very popular, particularly among inland lake fishermen. No, not the bird kind of gizzard.

A gizzard shad is a silver fish in the herring family that skips along in schools. The fish are often pretty large. Gizzard shads are found in most stream and river systems in Missouri. These fish 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 June ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation reports Riley Nolan of Fenton became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he gigged a gizzard shad on the Big River in Jefferson County. The ...

Joseph Duncan, of Fredericktown, has become Missouri's latest state record holder under alternative methods for gizzard shad. Duncan was bowfishing on a private pond April 19 in Madison County when he ...

Submitted photo A reader sent this photo of dead fish along the shoreline of Lake Milton. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are gizzard shad and were ...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism will conduct partial fishery renovations on four small impoundments this winter — including Shawnee County's Shawnee State Fishing Lake. The KDWPT ...