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.

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 ...

The rub is that there’s also an unusually large number of gizzard shad, their favorite food, all around. “Your lure is just one of tens of thousands of baitfish in front of them,” he said.

Match up Shad are maybe the best known bass forage, with myriad lures imitating them. The two most popular species are gizzard shad and threadfin shad. While they are very similar, there are a few ...

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 ...

The fish kind. A fish with a gizzard, more appropriately named gizzard shad. They, and their cousin, the treadfin, make wonderful striper bait, as was recently proven by two anglers fishing the ...