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 ...

Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have ...

It wasn't a gizzard out of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Wouldn't find it in a giblet gravy. Still, a "gizz" is very popular, particularly among inland lake fishermen. No, not the bird kind of gizzard.

For nearly 32 years, Jim Goff has been a fixture on Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, where he has spent his “retirement” years guiding fishermen in search of striped bass. That makes him not only the ...

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 ...

It's the 10th Missouri fish record so far this year. This one was set by Rogersville teen Jacob Morgan, who used a fishing bow to shoot a 2-pound, 13-ounce gizzard shad on the Bull Creek arm of Lake ...