Sea Lamprey | jawless
up to a meter long
oceanic (reproduces in freshwater)
deep water
great lakes |
Northern Brook Lamprey | green
up to 20cm
smaller mouth
brooks/streams |
Lake Sturgeon | tan/brown
1-2m
horny looking back
inferior mouth
barbels
great lakes |
Goldfish | orange
white tips on cuttle fins
carp family
lakes or ponds
warmer water |
River Chub | Black faded stripe alongside
stubby snout
10-15cm
warm shallow / rivers |
Flathead minnow | shinny yellow-green w/black faded stripe
5cm
black bar at base of tail
small rivers |
Channel catfish | fork tail
2 dorsal fins
mucus body, no scales
warm water |
Northern pike | long and narrow
toothy
warm water |
Muskellunge | deep warm water |
Lake whitefish | black w/white dots
adipose fin
cold open water |
Bowfin | eye spot on cuttle fin
gular plate
warm water lakes |
Coho salmon | hook snout
cold water
spawns in rivers/streams |
rainbow trout | red line runs through the body
sometimes white fringes on the pectoral fin
cold water
river / lake |
Brown trout | white tip on pectoral fin
small
cold rivers |
Lake trout | black w/ white spotting
white underside
deep water
lake - sometimes river |
Ninespine stickleback | 9 stickles
small
slow warm water |
Mottled sculpin | chubby and flat
bottom dweller
fast-moving water |
Rock bass | red eye
bass body
warm shallow water |
Green sunfish | green ish lines towards head
small
veiny looking
warm mucky water |
Pumpkinseed | red
operculum cover w/ red
blue ish lines towards head
warm water |
Bluegill | dark blue operculum cover
vertical striping
warm water |
Smallmouth bass | vertical striping
mouth opening lines with corner of eye
cold open water |
Largemouth bass | mouth opening goes past eye
dark horizontal striping
cold open water |
Round goby | big round poppin frog eyes
spot on dorsal fin
clear ish fins
cold water |
Black crappie | large dorsal fin
black & white patterns |
Darters | larger adipose fin than dorsal
rainbow coloring
streams |
Yellow perch | vertical wide bands
yellow body |
Walleye | speckled
tall sharp spiky dorsal fin
toothy |