Staff at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission hatcheries throughout the state work in the colder months to improve future fishing conditions. More than 4 million threadfin shad have been raised in ...

It was an especially bad morning to be a threadfin shad - not that any morning is particularly pleasant when you are the freshwater equivalent of a silvery potato chip in a world filled with hungry ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

RUSSELLVILLE — Anglers competing in the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament this week will find Lake Dardanelle much different than the one they fished in 2005 and 2007. The main difference is that the ...

There's a healthier forest around Swepco Lake and better habitat for fish thanks to a week of teamwork on land and water. Workers from Southwestern Electric Power Co. and the Arkansas Game and Fish ...