1. Fish Identification
Updated
April 2014

2. Migratory Fish

3. American Eel
Catadromous: lives in freshwater and spawns in saltwater, the Sargasso Sea.

4. American Shad
Anadromous: Lives in saltwater and spawns in freshwater.

5. Atlantic Sturgeon Length: Max 15 feet. Weight: Max 800 pounds.
Age: Max 60 yrs.

6. Sea Lamprey
Sea Lamprey on Lake Trout.

7. Paddlefish

8. Sunfish Family

9. Largemouth Bass
PA State Record
11 lbs. 3 oz.

10. Smallmouth Bass
PA State Record
8 lbs. 8 ozs.

11. Rock Bass

12. White & Black Crappie Bass

13. Bluegill

14. Longear Sunfish

15. Red-spotted Sunfish

16. Green Sunfish

17. Catfish

18. Brown Bullhead
PA State Record:
4 lbs. 10 oz.

19. Channel Catfish Weight: Max 40 to 50 pounds. PA State Record:
35 lbs. 2.5 oz.

20. Flathead Catfish Length: Max 61 inches Weight: World record
123 lbs. 9 oz.
PA State Record:
48 lbs. 6 oz.

21. Minnows

22. Blacknose Dace

23. Fathead Minnow

24. Creek Chub

25. Common Carp
The largest carp caught by an angler was in Bordeaux, France weighing 94 pounds.
PA State Record:
52 lbs.

26. Suckers

27. White Sucker

28. Northern Hog Sucker

29. Pike Family

30. Chain Pickerel

31. Northern Pike

32. Muskellunge

33. Tiger Muskellunge

34. Temperate Bass

35. Striped Bass

36. Perch

37. Yellow Perch

38. Walleye

39. Trout

40. Brook Trout Official State Fish of Pennsylvania. State Record: 7 lbs.
Genetically a Char not a trout.

41. Rainbow Trout
Introduced from the Rocky Mountain states in the early 1900’s.
PA State Record:
15 lbs oz.

42. Steelhead Trout
Anadromous version of
Rainbow Trout.
Male
Female

43. Golden Rainbow Trout West Virginia Fish Hatchery in 1954 found
one female with the genetic mutation
First Stocked in 1967.
Pennsylvania record Golden Trout was 13 pounds.
Not a Palomino

44. Tiger Trout – Cross between a Brown Trout & a Brook Trout.
Officially discontinued in 2005.

45. Brown Trout Introduced from Germany in 1886. PA State Record:
19 lbs. 10 oz.

46. Exotic Fish

47. Catfish