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, ...

Fall is a good time to stock forage species in ponds and lakes, according to Scott Jones, small impoundment extension specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. One reason for the timing ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife worked together to load more than one-quarter of a million forage fish into the rising waters of Lake Monticello.

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 ...