Fish

Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)

The Brook trout have small yellow spots over an olive-green back. Along its sides, the brook trout’s color transitions from olive to orange or red, with scattered red spots bordered by pale blue. Its lower fins are orange/red, each with a white streak and a black streak, and its underside is a milky white.

Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)

The Yellow perch is oval shaped with a deep, laterally compressed, oblong body. Two Dorsal fins and a bright yellow and green body with thick darker lateral markings.

American eel (Anguilla rostrata)

The American Eel is long and skinny, with a fin extending along its back and another long fin from stomach to tail with a green/yellow back transitioning to a white underbelly.

White perch (Morone americana)

The White Perch is a silvery greenish-gray fish with a dark, highly domed back, spines are present on a deeply notched dorsal fin.

Golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)

The Golden shiner is a small schooling fish with a thin and deep body, and a small triangular head with upturned mouth and a prominent golden coloration on the side with a silver body.

Creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)

The creek chub has a dark brown body with a black lateral line from tip to tail with a prominent darker horizontal band across a silver-brown body.

Banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus)

The Banded Killifish has olive-colored sides with numerous silver-blue vertical bands and a contrasting dark coloration across the dorsal region.

White sucker (Catostomus commersonii)

The white sucker has a downturned mouth with thick lips, a single non-spined dorsal fin, and a tail fin with a strong indent. They are a silver coloration with transitioning to a white underbelly.

Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)

The Ninespine stickleback has bony scutes instead of scales on the sides and usually nine small isolated dorsal fin spines.

Brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus)

The Brown Bullheads has four pairs of barbels, no scales, stout spines at the origins of the dorsal and pectoral fins. They are a brown-grey colour with a white underbelly.

Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)

The Lake whitefish is olive-green to blue on the back with silvery sides. The fish has a small head relative to its body and presence of two small flaps in each nostril.

Historically stocked

Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

The Brown trout is golden brown with large black spots on the back and red spots (some with pale halos) on the sides.

Historically stocked

Chain pickerel (Esox niger)

The chain pickerel are a long slim bodied fish with dark chain-like patterns on its green-yellow sides and a dark marking extends downward from the eyes. An elongated mouth with many small sharp teeth.

Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)

The Smallmouth Bass is a dark to olive green coloured fish with darkened lateral bands. Dark bars radiate back from a red coloured eye and one bar radiates from the eye to the snout. The jaw does not extend past the eye. The two dorsal fins are joined together.