During winter, when ice covers the lake, life goes on underneath, but when oxygen levels drop, some of the wildlife also die, and gizzard shad are usually the first to go. “These are the wimps of the ...

Submitted photo A reader sent this photo of dead fish along the shoreline of Lake Milton. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are gizzard shad and were ...

lasting only six days on Lake Winnebago as spearers passed the quota for adult female sturgeon, benefiting from clear spots of water and the year's abundance of shad minnows — a popular food ...