Great Lakes Fish

Sea Lamprey

INVASIVE

Lake Sturgeon

shovel-shaped snout, barbels, large bony scutes, up to 9ft long

Bowfin

long cylindrical body, long dorsal fin, tubular nostrils, caudal "eye spot"

Alewife

INVASIVE, silver underside/dark topside, dark operculum spot

Lake Whitefish

adipose fin, silver underside

Arctic Grayling

huge black dorsal fin, small mouth

Lake Trout

cream spots on green/gray body, slimy, narrow white edge on fins

Chinook Salmon

black spots on back and fins, black gums, silver underside

Rainbow Smelt

long and slender fish, teeth on tongue, dorsal fin above pelvic fin

Northern Pike

duck-bill snout, dorsal fin far back, rows of yellow bean-shaped spots on dark body

Muskellunge

rows of dark "stripes" on yellow body, far back dorsal fins, duck-bill snout

Channel Catfish

4 pairs of barbels, no scales, adipose fin, fin spines

Largemouth Bass

spiny and soft fins nearly separate, large mouth, black lateral stripes

Bluegill

large black spot on dorsal fin, blue streaks mouth to gill, pan fish

Pumpkinseed

bright orange spot on edge of ear flap, deep bodied, scales kind of look like pixels

Walleye

huge mouth, opaque silver eyes, soft/spiny dorsal fins not connected

Yellow Perch

green/brown saddles on yellow side, orange fins during breeding

Deepwater Sculpin

deepwater fish

Burbot

2 dorsal fins, single barbel at top of chin, sound it seems like it makes when you hold it