Fish Flashcards
1
Q
- red/orange spots
- boxy body, forked tail
- usually yellowish belly
A
brown trout
2
Q
- state fish
- fins have black and creamy white margins
A
brook trout
3
Q
- pink streak down side
- tail completely covered with spots and forked
A
rainbow trout (steelhead)
4
Q
- wormy marks on back
- well forked tail
A
lake trout
5
Q
- dark mouth and gums
A
chinook (king) salmon
6
Q
- dark mouth with whitish gums
(coke)
A
coho salmon
7
Q
- large vertical bars along the side
A
yellow perch
8
Q
- size of thumb nail
- very sharp
- filter feeders
A
zebra mussel
9
Q
- mouth with large teeth
- “glowing” EYE
- greenish color
- popular to eat
A
walleye
10
Q
- large predator with huge teeth and mouth
- horizontal rows of yellowish bean shaped spots along green side
A
northern pike
11
Q
- very large predator with big mouth and huge teeth
- dark vertical bars on light colored side (tiger m)
- dark bars/spots in vertical pattern on light colored side (m)
A
muskellunge (muskie)
12
Q
- tastes like CRAP
- sucker like mouth
- large diamond shaped scales
- brown/tan color
- zach kooi
A
carp
13
Q
- brown/black body with white belly
- barbells on mouth
- square tail
A
bullhead
14
Q
- silver body with black spots
- barbells on mouth
- forked tail
A
channel catfish
15
Q
- huge, slow growing bottom feeder
- mouth like vacuum tube with barbels on bottom
- large armor-like “scutes” along length of body
- largest, oldest fish in mi
A
lake sturgeon
16
Q
- sucker-like mouth points down
- light green in color
A
white sucker
17
Q
- rounded tail
- long dorsal fin
- “bow” target near tail
A
bowfin (dogfish)
18
Q
- all BLACK flap on gill cover (operculum)
- dark spot near the rear of the dorsal fin
- mouth does not extend past eye
A
bluegill
19
Q
- red spot on operculum flap
- turquoise and yellow bands behind mouth
- mouth does not extend past eye
A
pumpkinseed (sunfish)
20
Q
- mouth extends past eye
- dark horizontal band along the side
A
largemouth bass
21
Q
- mouth does not extend past eye
- greenish colors with dark vertical bars on sides
- eyes may be red
A
smallmouth bass
22
Q
- red eye
- brownish sides with mottled black spots
- 6 spines on anal fin
A
rock bass
23
Q
- “short head”
- silver color
A
freshwater drum (sheephead)
24
Q
- pointy, narrow face and flat body
- black mottled spots on side
- 7 or more dorsal spines
- “often found in toilets”
A
black crappie
25
Q
- short pointed head with small mouth
- not as “tall” as sheephead
- silver/white in color
A
whitefish
26
Q
- long eel-like body with round mouth
- rasp-like teeth
- dark or gray in color
A
sea lamprey
27
Q
- small, silver color
- finger sized
- forage fish
A
rainbow smelt
28
Q
- small forage fish
- silver/shiny
- forked tail
A
alewife
29
Q
- frog like raised eyes
- short snout like mouth with thick lips
- single rounded pelvic fin on belly
A
round gobi
30
Q
- coming soon to a lake near you!
A
asian carp (silver carp)
