Ohio’s wild turkey hunters checked 16,014 birds during the spring 2025 season, an uptick from recent years. The total ...

That one preferred blood worms, which isn't the most nutritional food. On the other hand, Sturgio relished a diet of lake smelt, gizzard shad, and rainbow trout.

Learn the best reaction & finesse baits for shad spawn fishing on the Tennessee River. Pro tips from David Walker to help you catch more bass during shad spawn.

Illinois officials took possession last week of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in the Des Plaines River near Joliet in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan.

Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan ...

Invasive weeds are so bad at Flint Lake, during last year’s Department of Natural Resources survey, DNR had to clean its boat propellers.

More die-offs of the gizzard shad are likely to be reported as ice melts and carcasses float to the surface.

Submitted photo A reader sent this photo of dead fish along the shoreline of Lake Milton. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are gizzard shad and were ...

While fishermen covet Lake Erie’s walleye and yellow perch, the hundreds of common and red-breasted mergansers present on this day were after different fishy fare: emerald shiners and gizzard shad.

Winters are shortening on Lake Michigan Scientists say Lake Michigan’s winter season is getting shorter, disrupting fish populations, nutrient cycles and even summer recreation.

A slightly warmer, windier and wetter climate has already begun to change the footprint of the lake and its impact on West Michigan.