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40 detailed profiles covering identification, habitat, seasons, tackle, baits and technique for every freshwater fish.

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Largemouth Bass

The largemouth bass is the most popular freshwater game fish in the United State…
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Smallmouth Bass

If the largemouth is the king of weeds and cover, the smallmouth bass is the bru…
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Rainbow Trout

The rainbow trout is the iconic American cold-water game fish β€” beautiful, widel…
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Bluegill

The bluegill is the quintessential American panfish β€” the fish that launches mor…
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Crappie

The crappie is one of America's most beloved panfish β€” a slab-sided, paper-mouth…
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Channel Catfish

The channel catfish is the most widely distributed and most heavily fished catfi…
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Walleye

The walleye is the prized cool-water game fish of the northern United States β€” a…
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Northern Pike

The northern pike is the toothy apex predator of cool northern waters β€” a long, …
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Brown Trout

The brown trout is the wary, intelligent, and most challenging of America's comm…
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Brook Trout

The brook trout is the jewel of America's coldest, cleanest headwater streams β€” …
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Yellow Perch

The yellow perch is one of North America's most beloved panfish β€” a scrappy, sch…
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Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) β€” Freshwater & Hybrid

The striped bass is the heavyweight of America's freshwater open-water scene.
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Muskellunge

The muskellunge β€” "musky" to the anglers obsessed with it β€” is famously called "…
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Blue Catfish

The blue catfish is the giant of North American catfish β€” the largest member of …
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Flathead Catfish

The flathead catfish is the loner and the predator of the catfish world.
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White Bass

The white bass is the freshwater angler's fast-action favorite β€” a scrappy, hard…
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Spotted Bass

The spotted bass β€” "spot," "spotty," or "Kentucky bass" to those who chase it β€” …
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Lake Trout

The lake trout is the great deep-water predator of cold northern lakes β€” North A…
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Chinook Salmon

The Chinook salmon β€” also called the "king salmon" β€” is the largest of the Pacif…
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Coho Salmon

The coho salmon β€” widely known as the "silver salmon" β€” is the acrobatic, hard-c…
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Steelhead

Steelhead are the sea-run, or in the Great Lakes the lake-run, form of rainbow t…
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Cutthroat Trout

Cutthroat trout are one of the West's most iconic native fish β€” a beautiful, wil…
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Chain Pickerel

The chain pickerel is the smaller cousin of the northern pike and muskellunge, b…
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Redear Sunfish

The redear sunfish β€” known across much of the South as the "shellcracker" β€” is t…
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Pumpkinseed Sunfish

The pumpkinseed is one of the most beautiful fish in North American fresh water …
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Rock Bass

The rock bass is a stocky, red-eyed panfish that blurs the line between sunfish …
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Common Carp

The common carp is one of the most misunderstood fish in American fresh water.
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Sauger

The sauger is the walleye's smaller, river-loving cousin β€” a member of the perch…
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Kokanee Salmon

The kokanee is the landlocked, freshwater-resident form of the sockeye salmon.
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Bullhead Catfish

The bullhead is the everyman's catfish β€” small, abundant, hardy, and almost univ…
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Bowfin

The bowfin is one of the most ancient fish swimming in North American waters, th…
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Longnose Gar

The longnose gar looks like something that swam straight out of the Cretaceous, …
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Alligator Gar

The alligator gar is the largest fish in most of the waters it swims, a true fre…
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Freshwater Drum

The freshwater drum is one of the most widely distributed yet least appreciated …
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Arctic Grayling

The Arctic grayling is one of the most beautiful fish that swims in North Americ…
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Tiger Muskie

The tiger muskie is the apex predator of many North American lakes β€” a striking,…
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Burbot

The burbot is the strange one.
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Peacock Bass

The peacock bass is, despite its name, not a bass at all β€” it is a large, brilli…
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Northern Snakehead

The northern snakehead is the most notorious invasive fish in American fresh wat…
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White Perch

The white perch is a small, scrappy, abundant fish that punches well above its w…

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