As adults, mature largemouth bass can be around 30 inches in length 76 centimeters. Largemouth bass have relatively long lifespans, and can live for 25 years naturally. Largemouth bass can be distinguished by their elongated body, and dark green and yellow coloration. They have a dark horizontal stripe adorning the side of the body, and, as the name suggests, they have larger mouths on average than their small-mouthed cousins.
As juveniles, M. As they reach adulthood, their diet shifts and they begin to feed on larger insects, crayfish, and even other fish species. Largemouth bass reproduce in the springtime. Males will build nests in shallow waters where the females will deposit eggs. The males will come along later and fertilize them.
The fertilized eggs will develop and hatch in about 6 to 7 days. The males will stick around in order to protect their school of larvae for the first month.
The walleye is an interesting species of freshwater fish that, as you may have inferred, is named after its eyes! They are large, silvery and opaque in appearance — they make S. The species belongs to the perch family, Percidae.
These fish can grow to be 2. Each individual is adorned with one spiny and one soft-rayed dorsal fin. Walleye have dark spots patterning their backs and razor-sharp teeth that they use to catch prey. Named after its unique eyes, the walleye has a thin and reflective ocular film that allows it to hunt very well during the night hours and in murky water. They are nocturnal hunters, and prey on small fish, invertebrates, and insects.
In a single spawning event, a female walleye will move to shallow, warm waters to release up to , eggs! After becoming fertilized by a male, the eggs will hatch in about 10 days. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Can You Fish? Chinook salmon can be caught in Lake Michigan from boats, some piers and in streams. The average size ranges between 7 to 12 pounds. The steelhead population in Lake Michigan peaks in mid-June through August when fishing from a pier or boat and from July through February when fishing from a stream.
The anal fin usually has 15 to 17 rays. Chinook Salmon do not jump and roll as much as coho, but have tremendous power and make long reel-screaming runs. Habits - Open-water fishing is the best in spring and summer, as with coho. Migration to parent streams begin in late ummer, with heavy concentration at stream mouths. Stream fishing peaks sometime in September, at the onset of spawning runs.
Identification - Tail spots are concentrated on the top of the tail. The interior of the mouth is usually gray or black, but the gums are whitish. The anal fin usually has 12 to 15 rays. Also, while on the line, coho often roll sideways, many times entangling themselves in the tackle. Habits - In spring and summer, coho can be found in open waters near concentrations of alewives or smelt - usually within 10 miles of shore in the upper 20 to 40 feet. In August and September, they concentrate in schools near mouths of the parent streams.
Sometime in September, they begin ascending the spawning streams in waves. Identification -Color pattern is mostly gray above and white below with creamy white mottling on the back, grading to spots on the side - no red or pink. The tail is distinctly forked. Habits - Pre-eminently a deep-water and cold-water fish. In spring and during fall spawning season, when water is still very cold, lake trout may be taken in lake edge shallows. They too will run up rivers in the fall, and become quite accessible to anglers below the large dams which block and concentrate the runs.
Summer and winter, they are taken by trolling and still fishing or "bobbing" in 50 to feet of water. Large inland lakes near the Great Lakes are also likely sites. Some large lakes, well inland, maintain populations with annual plantings. Most chinooks mature to weigh around 15 pounds, with a few twice that size caught each year. Indiana is renowned as the home of the Skamania strain steelhead, unique because they grow to a larger than average size and they swarm in the south end of Lake Michigan all summer long.
Catching a steelhead or two or three or These "lake-run" rainbow trout are the acrobats of the lake, making repeated jumps, three, four or more feet out of the water.
When conditions are right, anglers target nearshore Skamanias during June and July. Southern Lake Michigan steelies commonly range in size from six to sixteen pounds. Lake trout are the only "native" trout in the Great Lakes and their numbers are at modern era high levels. Both stocked fish and wild spawned lakers are caught. During the summer months most are caught in deep water 90 or more feet deep.
There's a special period in late April, through most of May they can be caught in water much shallower.
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