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, ...

It was an especially bad morning to be a threadfin shad - not that any morning is particularly pleasant when you are the freshwater equivalent of a silvery potato chip in a world filled with hungry ...

The annual threadfin shad spawn is now in full swing on Belton Lake. Most every morning, millions of these small forage fish, each roughly 3½ inches in length, transition rapidly from deep water up ...