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)

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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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Bowfin Fish

Bowfins are a different looking fish. The body is covered with heavy scales, and the head is covered with boney plates. Their color is olive green on their backs, and lighter and mottled on their sides, and they have a yellowish belly. A sinle, long, low dorsal fin extends over half the length of their body. It is light with stripes running lengthwise. The dorsal fin almost appears to connect with the their rounded tail. The tail has curving stripes. Bowfin can grow to several feet long and nearly ten pounds!

Bowfins spawn in the spring. The male uses his fins to clear a round depression in the weedy shallows, where the eggs of several females are deposited. The eggs hatch within 8 to 10 days while the male bowfin guards them. An average sized female bowfin of about 4 to 5 lbs. produces 23,000 to 64,000 eggs each year.

Bowfins are ready to spawn at the age of 2 to 4 years. The males then are about 18 inches long, while the females are about 2 feet long. Their lifespan is about ten years.

They eat mainly fish, but also eat crayfish, frogs, and insects. Bowfins are a sluggish fish, but it may strike at an anglers artificial lure or live bait.

Bowfins are commonly found in highly vegetated lakes, sluggish rivers, or swamps. They can tolerate very warm water, but they get more sluggish as water temperature rises.

Bowfins are also referred to as mudfish or dogfish.

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Northern Pike

This is a Northern Pike. It is dark yellowish to greyish green on it's back, with a whiteish colored underside. On it's sides are bean shaped spots in whiteish and yellowish colors. The fins have black blotches, and usually have red, orange, and yellow color to them.

They prefer shallow vegetated parts of lakes and ponds. Many may think to fish for these beauties in deep waters, but they prefer the shallows where they can hide among the weed beds for cover and also to snatch their prey.

They are a cool water and clear water fish. During the heat of the day, they retire to the deeper cooler waters, but they are active in the shallows when the sky is overcast or when the sun is low.

Their lifespan is about 25 years. They can reach up to 20 pounds and more, and 40 inches in length and more.

The Northern Pike spawn in very early spring. They are about three to five years old when they reach maturity spawning age. In spawning, they retreat to flooded marshes and shallow weedy back waters. They can deposit 3,000 to 120,000 eggs depending on their size. The eggs hatch within about two weeks. Within two weeks the baby pike are able to eat other fish. They are a fast growing fish, reaching 6 to 12 inches in their first year.

They are a very aggresive fish with very sharp teeth. They feed during the day. They eat fish, frogs, tadpoles, birds, muskrats, mice, crayfish, leeches, and large insects.

They are known to be caught by ice fishermen by using large live baits.

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Musky and Tiger Musky

The above pictures are Musky at top and Tiger Musky beneathe.

Musky are shaped almost like a missle. They have a flat snout, and many strong sharp teeth. You need to be careful in handling these fish.

They vary in color and markings. The main color on their backs and sides are light greenish grey or yello green to olive brown. Their stomaches are white. Their fins are greenish creme to brownish orange with dark blotches. they have bars of dark colors on their sides.

The tiger Musky is very similar except it has strong vertical or slanting bars on it's sides more definate distinguish than a regular musky. General color is dark greyish green on their backs with lighter green on their sides. They have dark side bars giving it it's tiger name.

They prefer cool waters. They are found in cool natural lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. They visit often quiet back waters and slow pools with plenty of weed growth. They use the weed growth as cover when hunting for prey. They are usually found in waters 15 feet deep or less.

They eat fish as a main diet but also eat snakes, frogs, muskrats, waterbirds, and mice.

They spawn in the spring after the Northern Pike. They spawn in cool shallow waters at night. They spawn in waters 6 to 12 inches in depth. They spawn in the same locations each year. They can deposit 22,000 to 180,000 eggs each year depending on their size. The eggs hatch within 8 to 14 days.

The hatched muskies can start eating fish after only 4 days. It can grow to about a foot long in only 4 short months. Females grow faster than males.

Grass Pickerel

This is a grass pickeral. The pickeral is related to the Musky and Pike family.

They rarely grow over twelve inches long. An adult grass pickerel could mistaken for a small pike or musky.

A grass pickeral has scaling covering it's cheecks and gill covers. Their backs are greenish to grayish, and they have lighter dusty vertical streaks. Their bellies are whiteish yellow. They also have a black bar unser their white eyes.

They prefer marshy areas of ponds and lakes. They spawn in the spring usually around April and can also spawn in the fall. The pickeral eats few fish, due to it's size, but feasts on insects and crayfish.

Chain Pickerel

This is a Chain Pickeral. (also related to the Pike and Musky family)

A chain pickerel can grow up to 30 inches in length. They easily hide in weedy habitats. With it's dark greenish yellow back and yellowish green along it's sides with a pattern of dark chain looking patterns and a white belly make them easily camoflauged in the weedy surroundings. Their fins are unmarked and pale in color.
They have a long snout like their relatives the Pike and Musky.

They prefer weed beds, sunken stumps, and fallen logs in natural lakes, also swampy ponds in man made waters. They can also be found in sluggish parts of clear streams.

They are shallow water fish, but can also thrive in deeper lakes.

They spawn in early spring and early fall, depositing 6,000 to 8,000 eggs.

They eat fish, crayfish, insects, frogs and other animals. They feed during the day especially right at dawn and right before dusk. They are active during the winter months.

Red Fin Pickerel

This is a Red Fin Pickeral.

The redfin is similar to the grass pickeral in appearance and size, except for it's red fins.

It prefers weedy areas and slow moving streams as well as lakes and ponds. they can tolerate swampy waters and low oxygen waters. They spawn in the spring in the shallow waters under vegetation. The eggs hatch within about 2 weeks.

Unlike larger pikes, the redfin does not include fish as their primary diet. They eat small crustations, crayfish, insects, and others such as tadpoles.

Their small size and shallow water habitats is why they eat so few fish.

Yellow Perch

This is a yellow perch.

It is very much like it's cousin the log perch, except it can reach 12 to 14 inches in length.

They live primarily in warm and cool lakes, ponds, sluggish streams, with a sandy or gravely bottom.
They are shallow water dwellers. There are not usually caught in waters deeper than 30 feet.

They spawn in the spring through April and May. They deposit up to 100,000 eggs but most only produce 15,000 to 25,000 eggs. Spawning usually occurs at night. It can take 8 to 25 days to hatch.

They mainly feed on small fish, insects, and crustations. They usually eat during daylight hours, but that's not to say you can't catch them at night.
Minnos and jigs are popular bait.

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Log Perch

This is a log perch.

It is a very commmon fish of the small fishes in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and streams.

It is a long slim fish that reaches 4 to 5 inches in length. It has tiger stripes along it's side. Thin stripes are dark olive or black on a pale yellowish green body.

They mainly feed on isects and larva.

They spawn in late spring and early summer. They produce 1,000 to 3,000 eggs.

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Channel Cats

This is a Channel Cat.

They can weigh up to 15 pounds. They can reach lengths of up to 30 inches. They have a deeply forked tail, with sharply pointed lobes.

The color is blue gray to slight gray. The belly is white-ish.

They prefer to live in clear warm lakes, large rivers, on clean sand and rock rubble. Young channels cats may be found in fast flowing waters. They prefer deep pools and runs and rivers. They can also be found in ponds, reservoirs, and lakes and even some large trout streams.

They spawn in May through early June. They deposit 2,000 to 70,000 eggs per year depending on their size. Young cats are insect eaters. As they grow they switch to fish, crayfish, and mollusks and sometimes plant matter.

They feed mostly at night, but often eat from the bottom in the dim daylight. The young fish have been known to feed on the surface.

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White Catfish

This is a white catfish.

The white catfish is a medium sized catfish. It's back and upper sides are light blue-ish gray. It's belly is a silvery yellow white.

The white cats can reach about 24 inches in length. They prefer to live in channels, pools, and backwaters in rivers and streams. They live mostly in sluggish currents and mud bottoms.

Their spawning habits are like that of the channel cats.

They eat plant materials, but they mostly eat other animal life, such as larva and other aquatic insects and fish.

Yellow Bullhead Catfish

This is a Yellow Bullhead catfish.

Yellow bullheads can grow 18 to 19 inches in length, but most are smaller. The back is yellow olive to slight gray. The belly is bright yellow or white-ish.
The tail is either straight or rounded.

It is tolerant in low oxygen and highly muddy waters. It can withstand pollution where other fishes can not.

They prefer back waters and slow currents in rivers and streams. They also live in reservoirs and ponds. They prefer to be where stumps and water weeds are. When these are removed, the population of yellow bullheads will decrease.

They spawn in the spring, usually in May, depositing 700 eggs in each spawn.

They eat insects, larva, snails, fresh water clams, crayfish, and other small fishes.
They have an excellent sense of smell. This helps them find foods in muddy water.

Flathead Catfish

This is a flathead catfish.

Flathead catfish have been known to grow to a weight of 100 pounds or more. They have a scaleless strong body and a well developed pectoral and dorsal fin. The tail is slightly indented. The dorsal fin is high and lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw.

The flathead cat is yelow-ish dark brown with a grayish white belly.

They are found in large rivers, streams, and lakes. They prefer hard bottoms. They also prefer deep sluggish pools with debree and logs. They are a lonerfish, traveling alone with the exception of spawning. They spawn in early summer. They can deposit 4,000 to 100,000 eggs depending on their size. They grow rapidly and are sexually mature at 15 inches or five years old.

Their lifespan is at least 19 years.

During the day flatheads hide beneathe undercut banks and brush piles, and come out to feed at night. They feed on various habitat such as crayfish and other fishes.
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Bull Head Browns

This is a Bullhead Brown.

They average between 12 and 15 inches in length. The upper part of the head, back and sides are dark brown in color shading down to a yellowish white belly.

They are a fun sport fish to catch because they put up quite a fight. They make a duck like quacking sound when brought to the surface.

They live in several types of habitats, being ponds, and bays of larger lakes and in warm water pools and slow moving streams. They are bottom dwellers. They usually live over soft mud or muck where there is ample vegetation. They can sometimes be found as deep as 40 feet.

They spawn in late spring, May to June near stumps, rocks, and downed trees. They usually spawn during the daytime. They can produce 2,000 to 13,000 eggs. One or both parents can sometimes eat some of the eggs. Baby bullheads are black and can be mistaken for tadpoles.

They are most active during the night. They are bottom feeders eating plant and animal material including insects, worms, minnows, other small fish, crayfish, snails, fresh water clams and algea. They are able to survive in the air for long periods of time and can remain alive for hours outside the water.

Margined Mad Tom

This is part of the stone cat family. It is called a Margined Mad Tom.

They are not a well known fish because most of them are small and hide during the day. They emerge at night time to feed. they have poisonous glands like the stone cat that can sting like a bee.

Stone Cats

Catfish are not all alike. There are many different species of catfish. The one shown above is a stone cat. It is one of the largest species of all the small catfishes. It has a black tail, and an adipose fin on the entire length of it's back. The fish itself, is yellow in color. They hide during the day by burrying themselves deep in the gravel at the bottom. They come out of hiding at night to feed.

The stone cat is one of the few catfishes that can sting. They have poisonous glands at the base of their spine. You need to be careful while handling them, for they can sting as painful as a bee. Not all catfish will sting or have the ability to sting.

They can grow to 12 inches long, but an average stone cat reaches 6 to 8 inches long.
It back is yellow olive to slate grey. It's sides are a lighter with yellow or pink tints. The tail is either rounded or square with a lighter colored border.

Their upper jaw is much longer than their lower jaw. The upper tenticles are grey, and the lower tenticles are white.

They generally live in rocky areas, or rapid moving creeks, and rivers. They can also be found in a gravel bottom area of a lake. It is a warm water fish and tends to avoid cooler waters. They spawn in early summer. They can produce up to 1200 eggs each year. the eggs are compacted like frog eggs would be, underneathe flat stones.
Parents will guard their eggs for a short time.

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More Bass Information

This is a white perch. It is considered part of the bass family.

They are a silvery thick bodied fish. They are about 2 1/2 to 3 times as long as they are deep.

When they are young they resemble a striped bass. The adult perch has no stripes or very faint stripes. The back varies from olive brown to blackish green, shading to pale or silvery green on it's sides, with a silvery white belly.

They live in fresh water, lakes, back waters, and bays, and even in salt water. It is especially found in ponds that connect to the sea. They are a school fish, with seasonal movements. In the spring they migrate upstream into back waters to spawn. They return back to the deep waters in the fall and winter.

White perch can get 8 to 10 inches in length and weigh less than 1 pound. They have a long lifespan of about twelve years.

They eat seasonally. In the winter through early spring, they eat larva. During the warmer months they eat Mayflies, crustations, water fleas and other small fish.

Hybrid Bass

This is a hybrid bass.

The hybrid is a hatchery created cross between the white bass and the striped bass. It can tolerate warmer waters than the striped bass. It's body is stockier than the pure striped bass. It has lateral stripes that are less distict. It's back is dark, almost black, while it's sides are silvery with 7 to 8 faint broken lateral lines. It's belly is white.

It can reach 10 to 12 pounds.

It prefers larger reservoirs and slow rivers. They want open waters to forage for fish like the shad, and the alewives.

It is a fast growing fish. That is typical of a hybrid.Occasionally a striped will breed with this hybrid bass, but more often they are sterile. These hybrids will feast on forage fish as adults.

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Spotted Bass

This is a spotted bass.

Spotted bass do not grow as large as the largemouth or the smallmouth bass. They only grow to about 18 inches, but most are found to be much smaller.

The upper part of the head and back are light to dark olive green, while the sides are silvery green, with a white-ish belly. They have a series of dark diamond shaped spots on it's sides. their eyes are redish in color.

Spotted bass prefer long deep silted pools of sluggish water. They basically occupy habitats that have been left by large mouths.

They spawn in early summer. Young spotted bass eat zooplankton and insects and graduate to eating crayfish and other fishes.

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White Bass

This is a white bass.

A white bass is a medium sized fish. They can get up to 18 to 20 inches in length and two to three pounds.

They are blue gray to steel gray on their backs, with sides of silvery white.

They prefer to live in large lakes and small to large rivers. They prefer clear waters. They are a school fish. They spawn, feed and travel in groups. In late April through early June they spawn. Females can release 25,000 to 1,000,000, eggs. The eggs will hatch within two or three days.

Young bass quickly learn to thrive in the schools. They drift amoung large groups eating zoo plankton. As they grow they of course switch to eating larger prey such as fish.

They go back into deeper water by day and shallow water by night. They are aggresive feeders. They make a big commotion on top waters as they feed on schools of forage fish.

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Striped Bass

This is a striped bass.

Striped bass are a valuable food fish as well as a popular sport fish.

They have a smooth arched profile. They are slimmer and more streamline than the hybrid bass until it reaches 5 or more pounds.

They can get up to 100 pounds in the sea, and up to 50 pounds in inland waters. Their back is an olive green to a steel blue gray, often even black. Their sides are silvery to silvery green, with a white belly. They also have distict dark stripes on their sides.

They can live in salt water and fresh water. They migrate from salt waters to fresh waters to spawn. This takes place in the spring. The females can release 65,000 eggs. They usually hatch within two to three days.

They eat just about anything that is alive and available. They are a top level carnivore. They feed mostly at night.

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Burbot

This is a burbot.

This fish is endangered in some states.

They prefer cool deep lakes and rivers. After spawning, which they do in the winter, they retreat to tributary rivers and streams. They are seldom abundant in any particular locations. Their dorsal and anal fins go nearly almost the length of their body. It has a barbal fin that extends from each nostril and barbal at the tip of it's lower jaw.

As stated before the spawn in the winter time. The eggs will hatch within 30 days. Young grow rapidly for their first 4 years feedind mostly at night on a variety of invertibrates.

They spend most of their time in lake shallows and stream channels. Adults more than 20 inches long feed almost entirely on other fish in the summer and invertibrates in the winter.

Fresh Water Drum Fish

This is a fresh water drum fish.

A drum fish is dark green to olive brown on the upper part of it's head. It's sides shade to silvery and it's belly is white. it's body is sharply arched. They are found in temperate coastal waters around the world and some rivers and lakes.

They are also called croakers. They produce a croaking sound. they also produce a drumming sound by using the muscles attached to it's air bladder, especially during summer breeding season. It takes place in shallow waters. Young grow rapidly at first. Some do not reach over 20 inches in a ten year time. They feed on mullosks, insects and invertibrates.

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Mooneye Fish

This is a mooneye fish.

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Suckers

This is a Northern Hog Sucker.

They can grow up to 22 inches in length and weighing about 4 pounds.

Their head and upper back is brown-ish, with dark mottling. Their back are 4 dark bars. The sides are shaded a lighter brown. It has a white-ish belly.

They prefer clean waters, so they are a good indicater that the waters are of good quality. They are assosiated with gravely areas. When they are in lakes or reservoirs, they can be found near the mouths of tributary streams. They spawn in the spring.

They are bottom feeders eating insects, snails and mullusks, crustations, algae and plant materials. They also eat minnows and crayfish.

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White Sucker

This is a white sucker.

White suckers have a stout tube shaped body. They can get up to 24 inches in length and weigh about 5 pounds.

The upper back and head is olive brown shading to a light yellow. Their bellies are white-ish in color.

They can live in many habitats being cool clear streams, warm rivers, lakes, ponds and reservoirs. They are tolerant to pollution. They are not very choosey about their home. They can be found in either dense weeds or rocky pools. They spawn in the spring, early May to June. They can produce 20,000 to 50,000 eggs. After the eggs hatch, they remain in the gravel for safety for 2 to 4 weeks. They then move on and grow rapidly. They can live up to twelve years.

They are active during the daytime but do most of their feeding at sunrise and sunset when they can move into shallow water and dim light. However they are bottom feeders. They eat both plants and animal materials.

They are a school fish and can sometimes be found in groups of pools in clear water streams.

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Quillback Fish

This is a quillback fish. It is considered a carp sucker.

The quillback have a body type that is deep when veiwed from the side, but narrow from the front. The back color is olive brown to gray-ish. It has silvery sides. It has a long dorsal fin.

They can grow to 2 feet long and weigh 12 pounds. They live in slow moving pools, backwaters and streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. They spawn in the spring, and the eggs hatch within 8 to 12 days.

Adult quill backs 60% die annually. They feed on the bottom of insects, and small animal organisms, mullusks, fingernail clams, and travel in schools.

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Steel Head Fish

This is a steelhead.

Steelheads are part of the trout species. They are very similar to the rainbow trout only their mouth is white inside.

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Lake Trout

This is a Lake Trout.

The lake trout has a gray color often with a bronze olive overtone, a silvery white belly, and the back and sides have many large light colored markings. They also have light speckling on their fins.

They can grow to more than 50 inches long. They can reach over 100 pounds. They live in deep cold infertile lakes. They prefer water temperatures of 50*
In the summer they stay deep below the surface and can be caught by trolling deep.

They can strike on artificial lures and flies, near the shore. They reproduce at 6 or seven years old. They return to spawn in the same place every year. They spawn at night during the fall. The eggs will hatch the following spring.

They grow more slowly than salmon and other trout family members. They reach their large size by living up to 20 years. They feed on smelt, and other fishes, insects and plankton.

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Rainbow Trout

This is a Rainbow Trout.

A rainbow trout is silvery gray to dark green on it's back and sides. It has pink-ish or red-ish lateral stripes. They sometimes have lavendar or orange overtones. The belly is white-ish. the lower fins are a pale pink at spawning time.

They are also called Steelheads.

They are agressive fighters once hooked. they will jump out of the water after being hooked, in an attempt to be freed. In large lakes, steelheads can grow up to 30 inches and even larger.

They are considered fast water fish. They prefer swift runs and rifle areas of streams. Their preffered water temperature is around 50*.

They are spring spawners. They may enter streams to spawn in late fall through spring. It takes place in about 50* waters. Females produce up to 12,000 eggs. They are sexually mature at about 3 to 5 years of age.

They feed on isects, crayfish, and other crustations. they also eat other fish, plankton, snails, leeches, and fish eggs.

They bite on a variety of lures, flies, and baits. Their lifespan is six to eight years.

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Golden Rainbow Trout

This is a Golden Rainbow Trout.

This is a hybrid fish, grown and stocked by fish commisions.

They are a deep golden yellow, with pink-ish lower fins, pink or red tones on their cheeks, and a rainbow reddish latteral stripe. There is no spotting on the body or fins.

They prefer the same habitat as the rainbow trout. They are primarily raised in fish hatcheries, to be stocked in trout streams.

Spawning is very unlikely in the wild. They grow larger and faster than the usual rainbow trout.

Their food preferances are similar to the rainbow trout.

Brook Trout

This is a Brook Trout.

A brook trout is usually dark green, with dark olive green to grayish green on it's back, with dark squiggly markings from head to tail. It's sides and belly are a shade lighter. The sides also have scattered red dots and blue halo-like markings. The belly is a pale yellow or yellow-ish orange with a black/ gray streak down the middle.

They are found in small cold clean streams, also can adapt to lakes and ponds.

They spawn in the fall from mid- September through November. They deposit 4,000 eggs.

They eat insects on the water surface, crustations and other small fish. They can be caught on a variety of artificial lures and natural baits.

They have a short lifespan of five years. They can get up to 18 inches long.

Brown Trout

This is a brown trout.

Brown trout are brownish colored. The back and upper sides are dark brown to gray brown, with yellow brown to silvery lower sides. It has large dark spots outlined with pale halos, also organge-ish and yellow-ish spots on it's sides. The belly is white/ yellow.

There are usually found in cold to cool streams, lakes, and rivers. It's prefered water temperature is about 50 to 60*.

They can last a year or more in a stream because they are adaptable to stream changes and are not always easily caught. They spawn in the fall. Large females deposit 4,000 to 12,000 eggs. The eggs hatch the following spring.

Brown trout eat insects, crayfish, and especially other fish. Bigger brown trouts may also eat other animals such as mice, salamanders, and turtles. They feed mainly at night especially during the summer.

Their lifespan can be 10 to 12 years. They can reach 10 pounds in weight and 30 inches in length.

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