Musky Information

Musky are a common fresh water fish in America. They are a viscious preditor fish. Thet are one of Pennsylvania's largest and fastest growing fish. They can get up to 54 pounds! They can reach over 4 feet in length! An average musky is between 20 to 35 lbs.

They have a dorsal fin and anal fin set far back by their tail. It gives the fish a missle shaped look. They have a duck like snout with many strong sharp teeth. The musky has no scales on the lower half of it's cheek and gill covering. That helps to distinguish it from the Northern Pike. Musky can vary in color and markings. The base color on their back and sides is a light greenish grey. Younger musky can show more striping. As the fish matures the stripes will fade. The belly is white. The fins are greenish cream to brownish orange.

Musky are a cool water fish. They can be found in clear lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. They sometimes live in quite backwaters and slow pools, that have plenty of weed growth. The musky uses the weed growth for cover and catching it's prey. They are usually found in shallow water at 15 feet deep or less. They also like to be in rocky areas.

Musky rarely stray from their summer feeding areas, at least not over 2 miles. The large musky remain in one pool. Musky are a territorial preditor. They are very aggresive and will even attack and feed on each other. Their main diet is fish, but they will take what they can, including snakes, frogs, muskrats, mice and water birds!

They spawn in the spring. They spawn at night in shallow water. Spawning sites are usually on muddy bottoms, under stumps, and logs. They eggs are released and fall wherever they will. Most adult female musky release 22,000 to 180,000 eggs each year!
Eggs will hatch in 8 to 14 days.

When musky are only about 4 days old, they start eating other fish. They can grow to one foot long in only 4 months!
They are sexually mature in about three years and at over twenty inches long. Females grow much faster than males.

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Banded Killfish

The banded killfish are populated in the northern states from South Carolina to the Dakotas.

Killfish are also known as a top minno. They are not related to the minno family. They have a round body and flat head and back. They have a mouth that turns upwards. The dorsal and anal fins are further back than other fish.

Banded killfish are also called killies. They are on the surface of fresh water and coastal marine enviroments. They are sometimes used as bait fish for catching other species.

Their color is olive brownish on their back, while silvery white on the bottom. Fins are light to yellowish olive in color. Their tail is squarish. They have rows of sharp teeth in their upper and lower jaw.

They are only about the size of a minno reaching only 2 to 4 inches in length. They prefer still moving, fresh waters, and streams. They dig down into the bottom surface when threatened. They consume insects, larva, and worms.

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Large Mouth Bass

This is a large mouth bass.

The large mouth bass also has a nickname being "bucket mouth." They call it that because it can swallow large sized prey. They are a slight green to olive green in color with a whiteish or yellowish belly. It has a broad black stripe, or a line of broken splotches from head to tail running back it's sides.

The large mouth bass prefers warmer waters in ponds or small weedy lakes, though they can be found in rivers as well, and coves of larger lakes. You can usually find large mouth bass in weeds, soft bottoms, and around stumps or fallen logs. They are rarely found in rocky areas or extremely deep waters.

They spawn in the spring and early summer. They can lay 2,000 to 7,000 eggs per pound of their body weight. Eggs hatch within ten days. Young large mouths stay at the bottom of their nest for about a week. The male will guard them for about a month. Young bass feed on insects and small fish. Adult large mouth are preditors and eat mostly fish, crayfish, frogs, snakes, even small animals or birds. (mice and ducklings)

Large mouth feed both day and night. They will strike on a wide variety of lures. Large mouth strike for several different reasons. That is being aggitated, hungry, or simply because they are territorial.

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Small Mouth Bass

This is a small mouth bass.

Small mouth bass are also called bronze backs. It is a popular sport fish. It has a bownish bronze cast to it's back, with lighter yellow sides. It's belly is white or pale yellow. They have a series of 8 to 15 olive colored broken bars along each side.

They prefer to live in rocky locations in rivers and lakes. They like deep lakes and reservoirs also. They also are found around stumps, stone rubble and boulders in the waters. the smallmouth spawn May through early June. They often move to streams and back waters to spawn. They lay 2,000 to 7,000 eggs per pound of their body weight. The eggs hatch in two to nine days. They leave the nest in 5 to 6 days.

Adult small mouth feed on insect larva, crayfish and other fish. They can reach up to 20 inches in length or more, and weigh over 7 pounds.

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Panfish

There are many fish included in the panfish species. Only a few are illustrated here. Some illustrated here are the redear sunfish, banded sunfish, bluegill, black crappy, pumpkin seed, green sunfish, rock bass, black sunfish, blue sunfish, and white crappy.

Many of these panfish are beautifully colored and patterned. The smaller members are panshaped, which is how they get their name. Though many you may catch are not very big, some panfish such as the rock bass, crappies, can get quite large, even as large as 12 inches in length.

Angling tips vary from popping bugs on the surface (especially for bluegill) bottom bouncing jigs (for crappies)

Though panfish may not be very big, are a load of fun to catch. Personal experiance has showed me that you can catch hundreds daily with a simple worm/ nightcrawler and using a bobber.

You can find panfish in large schools, usually near the edges in shallow waters and cattails and weeds. That is not to say you won't find them in deep waters also.

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Walleye

Walleye is a very popular sport fish,and they are a great fish to cook up ,and eat .
They are heavily stocked in some states. Walleys have a long roundish body and a forked tail. They have sharp canine teeth. Their large eyes are reflective at night. Their dorsal fin seperates in two parts.
Walleye vary in colors from blueish grey to olive brown to golden yellow with dark and mottling spotting. Side scale may reflect gold.
The belly is light colored or white. The walleye is very similar to the sauger except the walleye has a dark spot on the rear edge of the dorsal fin.

Walleye can be found in large lakes, rivers, and big streams. They prefer cooler and deeper water with a gravel or sandy bottom. They do not like to be in water above 85*

They spawn in gravel areas. They spawn, travel and feed in schools. They are one of the first fish to spawn in the spring, sometimes even before ice thaw. They return year after year to their spawning sites. When a female releases eggs, they are scattered randomly. The female will spawn with several males usually at night. Walleye eggs hatch within 12 to 18 days. Females produce 25,000 eggs per pound of their body weight. A single large female could spawn 500,000 eggs. When they hatch they are about 1/2 inch long. Young Walleye feed on microscopic animals. When they reach several inches long they start eating other fish.

They tipically feed during dusk in cooler months and at night during the summer.
They eat other fish, frogs and crayfish. They can grow to 36 inches. Walleyes can be caught any time of the day, however, night fishing of fishing dim depths with live bait or fish like lures and jigs is quite effective.

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Sauger And Saugeye

The saugeye is the result of a sauger and walleye that have mated. The cross breeding often occurs in the wild. It is mostly the result of purposly mating in a fish hatchery.

A saugeye can grow larger than the sauger parent. Saugeye generally look like sauger only they have saddles and blotches. A white spot is usually located at the tip of the lower caudal fin of the saugeye.

Saugeye and sauger prefer turbid waters. You can catch a walleye sized fish when fishing for saugeye in habbitats such as large muddy rivers, and big silty reservoirs. Saugers do well only in larger lakes and reservoirs. They seem to need wide open spaces to thrive.

They both feed on other fish as well as frogs, crayfish and large insects. They will strike on live baits, fish like lures, and jigs.

A sauger can get 15 to 20 inches long weighing 3 to 5 ponds, while a saugeye can reach 36 inches and up to 17 pounds.

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