Stripers are keying on small threadfin shad about one-half inch long. Lures or bait that size are good to use. Larger shad or ...

October 21, 2025 (Sacramento) - Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a new fish consumption advisory for Hodges ...

The Solvang Trolly Ice Cream Parlor, inspired by 60 years of serving the community with daily horse and trolly tours around the Valley, is hosting a grand re-opening event Friday, Aug. 22, and ...

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a new fish consumption advisory for Cachuma Lake in Santa Barbara County, marking its 150th statewide advisory. The ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — On August 7, 2025, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

Fishing report 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. The ...

Shad spawns can pay off big, but bass pros who win big money don’t go all in on them. To catch big bass all day during a shad spawn, you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. In an ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

If history is any teacher, we will have another three weeks until 2025’s shad spawn on our local reservoirs comes to an end, and with it one of the two best windows of fishing opportunity of the year.

The annual threadfin shad spawn has begun on both Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes and brings with it a number of new options and opportunities which the winter’s cold water period did not offer.