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MinnowsMinnows

Bluntnose MinnowBluntnose Minnow

EAT: Mosquito wigglers

One or more males follow a female as she lays her eggs

CarpCarp

EAT: Vegetation Spawn during May

through July in shallow waters

Creek ChubCreek Chub EAT: copepods and water fleas when they

are young. aquatic insects, terrestrial insects worms, and small fish

spawn in early spring when water temperatures reach 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

The males select spawning sites in small streams in smooth water with gravel substrate.

males dig a pit by sweeping their tail against the stream bed and moving gravel away with their mouth.

After spawning occurs they fill in the pit, burying the eggs, with small pebbles creating a mound.

The male will then dig a new pit immediately downstream of the pile of pebbles.

As spawning continues this activity creates a ridge of pebbles that can be a foot across and several feet long.

Flathead MinnowFlathead Minnow

EAT: Plant materialEAT: Plant material Spawn from late Spawn from late

spring through spring through midsummermidsummer

Eggs are deposited over submerged objects and guarded by males

Golden ShinerGolden Shiner EAT: zooplankton, crustaceans,

insects, small fish, and algae. Females lay eggs on top of plants

or on top of another fish's nest

PerchPerch

SaugerSauger

EAT: aquatic

insects

Spawn in early spring

WalleyeWalleye

EAT: aquatic insects EAT: aquatic insects and fishand fish

Spawn During the early spring

Yellow PerchYellow Perch

EAT: minnows and the young of other small fish. They also eat insects such as mayflies.

Spawn in mid-May

PikePike

Chain PickerelChain Pickerel

EAT: Fish, crayfish, insects, frogs

Promiscuous males may

breed with more than one

female. Spawning occurs

during the spring in and

around vegetation. Eggs

are adhesive and stick to

vegetation.

Grass PickerelGrass Pickerel

EAT: Primarily fish, but will eat crayfish, frogs, and larger types of aquatic insect larvae.

spawn in the spring when water temperatures range from 43 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit.

MuskellungeMuskellunge

EAT: fish and sometimes ducklings and even small muskrats.

spawn in the spring ages between 3 and 6 years

old. The males move to the

spawning grounds first, the females following.

spawning takes place at night in shallow, muck-bottomed bays or coves, especially those with sunken stumps or logs.

No nests are built, and no parental care is given to eggs or young.

Northern PikeNorthern Pike

EAT: fish, frogs, swimming voles, rats, and small water birds

spawn in Lake Erie tributaries as soon as the ice breaks, usually in late February or early March. They often migrate into very small streams and can be found spawning in flooded drainage ditches

Salmon

Brown Trout EAT: carnivorous, bottom feeders They return to the streams where

they hatched to spawn. By whipping her tail, the female

digs a shallow pit in the gravel bed then deposits 4,000 to 12,000 eggs into the nest, or redd.

After the male deposits his milt into the pit, fertilizing the eggs, the female moves upstream to make another.

While making another redd, the displaced gravel covers the eggs downstream, thus protecting them throughout the winter. The eggs develop slowly over the winter months, hatching in the spring.

Chinook Salmon EAT: insects, amphipods,

and other crustaceans while young, and other fishes

Spawning in streams that are larger and deeper than other salmon utilize, chinook salmon spawn from late summer to late fall, depending on the run. Chinook salmon spend 1 to 8 years at sea before returning to natal streams to spawn.

Coho Salmon

EAT: plankton and insects, and switch to a diet of small fishes as adults in the ocean.

Coho salmon adults migrate from a marine environment into freshwater streams and rivers of their birth in order to mate (called anadromy). They spawn only once and then die (called semelparity).

Lake Trout

EAT: crustaceans, insects, other fish, and even small mammals.

lake trout seem to return each fall to use the same spawning beds The eggs are deposited after dark,

often on shoals.

Rainbow Trout

EAT: opportunistic feeders that rely on a wide variety of food items ranging from small insects to crayfish.

spawn in main river channels and their tributaries, and inlet or outlet streams of lakes.

During their spawning migrations, steelhead are famous for their ability and tenacity to return to the streams where they hatched.

Generally spawning in the spring and early summer,

Lake Sturgeon

EAT: crayfish and other crustaceans as well as insect larvae.

spawn in the spring from May-June. Prior to spawning, adult sturgeon form groups in deep holes near the spawning site. At this time, the sturgeon may perform "staging" displays that include rolling near the bottom then leaping out of the water to fall with a loud splash.

Sucker

Buffalofish

insect larvae, crustaceans, aquatic insects

Redhorse Sucker

aquatic insect larvae, some plant material, but mainly eat algae

Sunfish

Black Crappie

EAT: small fish, insects and crustaceans

They nest in the spring, generally when water temperatures reach 60°F

Bluegill

EAT: aquatic insects and their larvae

spawning when water temperatures reach about 70°F. Spawning may peak in May or June

Green Sunfish

EAT: insects and small fish

Spawning occurs in late spring, when water temperatures rise above 70°F, and may continue throughout the summer

Largemouth Bass EAT: fish and large

invertebrates such as crayfish. Larger fish prey upon smaller bass.

spawning begins in the spring when water

This could occur as early as February or as late as May, depending one where one is in the state.

Males build the nests in two to eight feet of water.

Largemouth bass prefer to nest in quieter, more vegetated water than other black bass, but will use any substrate besides soft mud, including submerged logs.

Longear Sunfish

EAT: Terrestrial and aquatic insects, crustaceans, and other small invertebrates.

spawn in groups but do not form large colonies like bluegill. Males select a spawning site in shallow water and build a nest on gravel substrate usually near cover. Longear sunfish spawn multiple times once the water temperature reaches the low 70's between mid-May and mid-August.

Orange Spotted Sunfish

EAT: aquatic insects

May-July over gravel and rock

substrates. Males fan out a depression in shallow water

Males actively court females, by swimming quickly toward female, then rushing back to nest, producing a series of distinctive grunts the entire time

Pumpkinseed

EAT: zooplankton This fish spawns May to early August and they lay their eggs in a crude nest that they scoop out of the mud or gravel in the bottom of the lakes and ponds.

Redear Sunfish

EAT: snails, insect larvae,

They spawn during the warm months of late spring and early summer

Rockbass

EAT: small fish and crustaceans

spawn on gravel or sandy substrates

Smallmouth Bass

EAT: zooplankton, switching to insect larvae and finally fish and crayfish as they grow

Spawn in the spring when water temperatures approach 60°F

Spotted Bass

EAT: zooplankton to insects, and finally to fish and crayfish when older

Spawn in rock and gravel at water temperatures of 57-74°F

Warmouth

EAT: insects, mollusks, and small fish.

reach sexual maturity at 3 to 4 inches

White Bass