When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn ...
Another nursery pond, this one on Lake Conway, also was stocked, but it is being used as a temporary fishing destination during that lake's renovation and the shad stocked there are helping keep ...
They have been biting on a black and blue jig, a finesse worm on a shaky head, and a small paddle tail swimbait in a dark shad color while fishing parallel to depth transitions. Most bites are coming ...