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• I.D. Your Fish
Identification characteristics of over 100 species, both juvenile and adult.

• Snakehead Fish
Can you make a positive identification?

• Michigan Grayling Only a Memory
"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," sang Joni Mitchell, a folksinger from the '60s.

• Mudpuppies
Mudpuppies are actually salamanders, large, permanently aquatic salamanders.

• Search Master Angler Entries
Michigan Master Angler Awards are the records provided by proud anglers. Anyone that thinks they've caught the really big one, may enter their catch and maybe even beat the state record!

• Michigan Fish and Their Common Names PDF icon

• Fish Stocking Database - where we stock fish
The Department of Natural Resources, rears fish at State fish Hatcheries and then stocks public waters with the various species. Look here to see if we've stocked your favorte fishing hole with your favorite sport fish.


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Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar
Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown Bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus
Brown Trout Salmo trutta
Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch
Lake Herring Coregonus artedi
Lake Sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens
Lake Trout Salvelinus namaycush
Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis
Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
Menominee Prosopium cylindraceum
Muskellunge Esox masquinongy
Northern Pike Esox lucius
Pink Salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Rock Bass Ambloplites rupestris
Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
Smelt Osmerus mordax
Steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss
Walleye Sander vitreus
White Bass Morone chrysops
White Sucker Catostomus commersonii (pictured)
Longnose Sucker Catostomus catostomus
Yellow Perch Perca flavescens



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