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 ...

Depending on whom you speak to, the American shad that ascend the Delaware River every spring to spawn are either doing well, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to target spawning American shad or hickory shad, you're going to want in on this secret UV spoon.

If history is any teacher, we will have another three weeks until 2025’s shad spawn on our local reservoirs comes to an end, and with it one of the two best windows of fishing opportunity of the year.

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. — “It’s just unreal,” biologist Dave Knuth said as he pulled dozens of small, young-of-the-year crappies from a net on Wappapello Lake the morning of Oct. 24. “We’ve probably recorded ...

For many bass fisheries across the country, the post-spawn is upon us. This means fish have made their beds, laid their eggs, and tiny little fry are beginning to hatch. The good news for anglers is ...

Maybe it was the snow and deep-freeze cold front of a couple of months ago. Maybe, in a couple of cases, it was the result of fall-into-winter drawdown of lake levels. Maybe it’s a succession of cold ...