Michigan Fish

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Atlantic Salmon
-Doesn't require salt water
-undergo most feeding and growth in salt water
-adults spawn in native freshwater to hatch eggs

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Black Crappie
-similar to bluegill, but the color&pattern gives its name
-feed heavily after dark

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Bluegill
-sunfish body type
-blue/black "ear"
-"ear":an extension of gill cover called an opercular flap

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Brook Trout
-native to small streams, creeks, lakes and spring ponds
-dark green to brown coloration w/ a marbled pattern of lighter shades

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Brown Trout
-by name, its coloration is brown
-blueish red halos the cover half of body from head to tail

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Channel Catfish
-similar to flathead catfish, except the head is more round
-silver color that lightens by tail

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Flathead Catfish
-cat whiskers and flathead
-carnivourous

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Lake Sturgeon
-boney plates (alligator-like spikes) for armor
-begin breeding after 20 yrs. old

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Lake Trout
-largest of trouts, weighing in at about 102 ibs.
-brown w/ yellow speckled dots all over body and a whitish belly

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Largemouth Bass
-has an oversized mouth compared to rest of body (hint: it's name)
-NOT an actual bass

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Muskllunge
-long nose/mouth
-long/narrow vertical "bubbles" which are vermiculations that run from back to belly

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Northern Pike
-long nose/mouth
-long/wide horizontal "bubbles" which are vermiculations that run from head to tail
-often an olive color with a shade of yellow and white along belly
-carnivourous to freshwater fish

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Pumpkinseeds
-its name comes from the color/size/shape
-spikey dorsel fin and rounded soft dorsel fin

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Rainbow Trout
-similar to brown trout but MUCH lighter in color and has a pinkish line in the middle of the body under all of the speckled dots

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Rock Bass
-brown coloration, rounded fat fish
-spikey dorsal and anal fin, rounded soft dorsal and soft anal fin
-carnivourous and diet consists of smaller fish, insects and crustaceans
prefer clear, rocky and vegetated stream pools and lake margins

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Sea Lamprey
-snake/eal looking body
-spikey rounded mouth
-non-native species introduced into Great Lakes by Way of Welland Canal
-predaceous and parasitic

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Smallmouth Bass
-generally green with dark vertical bands
-13-15 soft rays in dorsal fin
-upper jaw DOESN'T extend beyond back of eye
-member of sunfish family

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Splake
-blue/green coloration, except ALL fins have a pinkish/redish end
-white speckled dots ALL over body
-white belly

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Walleye
-dorsal side is olive color grading into a golden hue on the flanks
-many teeth
-spiny dorsal fins

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Whitefish
-white coloration with a blue/silver on top
-small mouth and deeply forked tail
-member of salmon family

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Yellow Perch
-yellow coloration with 5-7 brown vertical bands running from head to tail

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Zebra Mussles
-by its name, it's zebra printed and black&white/grey coloration
-in Great Lakes
-string-like tenticles hanging from the fish