Fall is a good time to stock forage species in ponds and lakes, according to Scott Jones, small impoundment extension specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. One reason for the timing ...

Each year around this time in the spring, threadfin shad, the primary forage fish on Belton Lake, begin to spawn. Like many things in nature, the threadfin shad spawn follows a bell-shaped curve, ...

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.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife worked together to load more than one-quarter of a million forage fish into the rising waters of Lake Monticello.