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, ...

As our early spring appears to be here to stay, we are now experiencing one of the several significant events in the annual cycle of our local fisheries. That is the white bass spawn. I addressed that ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

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 ...

When longtime Lake Powell fisheries biologist Wayne Gustaveson looks back on the the 2014 fishing year, he might be thankful for a silvery little fish that sustains the lake's entire food pyramid.

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 ...