gizzard shad are schooled up in spring and the heaviest bass craving big, protein-packed meals, are tuned into them. In general, cooler water temperatures make large bass more apt to target and chase ...

If bait fish like gizzard shad die off ... you hope that other food source will be the anglers’ lures.” Wolfe said the gizzard shad are not fit for human consumption. “These are not fish ...

When targeting suspended fish using Garmin LiveScope, Cooper relies on the Bass Pro Shops XPS Rock’n Shad in Green Gizzard. His key strategy is locating bait balls first, as bass will follow.

Chris Mack, a fisheries biologist with the DNR who responds to fish kill events, said it was a naturally occurring event that killed “thousands” of gizzard shad ... used as bait for catfish ...

An eagle-eyed St. Paul resident traipsing through nature spotted hundreds of dead fish floating Wednesday in an icy Mississippi River bay near Shepard Road and Randolph Avenue. The site was both ...