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Minnows
Bluntnose Minnow
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EAT: Mosquito
wigglers
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One or more males
follow a female as
she lays her eggs
Carp
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EAT: Vegetation
 Spawn during May
through July in
shallow waters
Creek Chub
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EAT: copepods and water fleas when they
are young. aquatic insects, terrestrial insects
worms, and small fish
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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.
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Flathead Minnow
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EAT: Plant material
 Spawn from late
spring through
midsummer
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Eggs are deposited
over submerged
objects and guarded
by males
Golden Shiner
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EAT: zooplankton, crustaceans,
insects, small fish, and algae.
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Females lay eggs on top of plants
or on top of another fish's nest
Perch
Sauger
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EAT: aquatic
insects
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Spawn in early spring
Walleye
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EAT: aquatic insects
and fish
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Spawn During the
early spring
Yellow Perch
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EAT: minnows and
the young of other
small fish. They also
eat insects such as
mayflies.
Spawn in mid-May
Pike
Chain Pickerel
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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 Pickerel
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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.
Muskellunge
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EAT: fish and sometimes
ducklings and even small
muskrats.
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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 Pike
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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
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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
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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
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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
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EAT: crustaceans,
insects, other fish,
and even small
mammals.
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lake trout seem to
return each fall to use
the same spawning
beds The eggs are
deposited after dark,
often on shoals.
Rainbow Trout
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EAT: opportunistic
feeders that rely on a
wide variety of food items
ranging from small
insects to crayfish.
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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
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EAT: crayfish and other
crustaceans as well as
insect larvae.
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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
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insect larvae,
crustaceans, aquatic
insects
Redhorse Sucker
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aquatic insect larvae,
some plant material,
but mainly eat algae
Sunfish
Black Crappie
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EAT: small fish, insects
and crustaceans
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They nest in the spring,
generally when water
temperatures reach 60°F
Bluegill
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EAT: aquatic insects and
their larvae
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spawning when water
temperatures reach about
70°F. Spawning may
peak in May or June
Green Sunfish
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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
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EAT: fish and large
invertebrates such as crayfish.
Larger fish prey upon smaller
bass.
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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
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EAT: Terrestrial and
aquatic insects,
crustaceans, and other
small invertebrates.
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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
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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
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EAT: zooplankton
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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
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EAT: snails, insect
larvae,
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They spawn during
the warm months of
late spring and early
summer
Rockbass
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EAT: small fish and
crustaceans
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spawn on gravel or
sandy substrates
Smallmouth Bass
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EAT: zooplankton,
switching to insect
larvae and finally fish
and crayfish as they
grow
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Spawn in the spring
when water
temperatures
approach 60°F
Spotted Bass
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EAT: zooplankton to
insects, and finally to
fish and crayfish
when older
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Spawn in rock and
gravel at water
temperatures of 5774°F
Warmouth
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EAT: insects,
mollusks, and small
fish.
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reach sexual maturity
at 3 to 4 inches
White Bass