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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fisherman from Lowell has broken a state record for the heaviest gizzard shad caught in the state.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — An Augusta man caught a record-breaking American gizzard shad on Bigelow Creek in St. Charles County. Brian Rehmeier tells the Missouri Department of Conservation that he was trying ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - In the sweltering July heat, a dozen or so fishermen deploy across Lake George on weekdays, working to control an exploding population of gizzard shad. The fish - which aren ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...