An effective technique is to let a swimbait sink to the bottom. You can hop it off the bottom or retrieve it in a steep ...

In late fall and winter, largemouth bass will target big gizzard shad out of efficiency. They can get a big meal with less effort than chasing and slashing wads of smaller threadfin shad.

People fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta’s Elk Slough near Courtland in this 2020 photo. Rich Pedroncelli AP ...

The bass are holding in deeper water feeding on threadfin shad. Spoons or plastics on the drop-shot are the best presentations for the deep bass. For trout and king salmon, Monte Smith of Gold ...

Randy Pringle, the Fishing Instructor, reported a solid crankbait bite using shad-patterned Squarebilled crankbaits around rock or tules. There is an amazing amount of threadfin shad in the Delta ...

Approximately 200 anglers had their sights set on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell for the final oix Bassmaster Open of 2024. Unfortunately for those in the Anderson, S.C., area, and so many others ...

Caldwell has found the fish to be holding at (65 to 95 feet) and Optimizer Jr. spoons lathered in threadfin shad gel trolled between 2 and 3 mph have been the hot bait. Fishing will continue to be ...

Compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. Photo gallery Show ...

He will be joined by Adrian College graduate Aaron Jagdfeld, who caught 12-3 to advance past Caleb Hudson of University of South Carolina-Union (7-3). “I was feeling pretty optimistic because I had ...