Know Your Fish

Brown bullhead are a small catfish species typically covered in a light mottling pattern. While the coloration can be highly variable, they typically have four pairs of brown barbels, a large rounded anal fin, and pectoral spines with 5-8 sharp serrations.

Brown Trout are golden-brown to olive on their back and sides; with large dark spots on their sides, dorsal fin and sometimes upper lobe of their tail. Red spots with light halos dispersed along their side.

Channel Catfish are gray to silver on their back and sides, with black spots on their side. Large fish lack spots and appear dark olive or slate. White belly. Forked Tail. Long barbels around their mouth. Adipose fin (fleshy dorsal fin).

Chinook are the largest of the Pacific salmon species. They are distinguished from the other species by having a black lower gum line and mouth, spots on both lobes of the tail, and many spots on the back, but few on the fins.

The Colorado pikeminnow is the largest minnow in North America and is an endangered, native fish of the Colorado River thought to have evolved more than 3 million years ago. Called the “white salmon” by early settlers due to its migratory behavior, the Colorado pikeminnow has a torpedo-shaped body and a large, toothless mouth. It has an olive-green and gold back and a silvery-white belly. 

Colorado River cutthroat trout have a bright yellow-gold body with a brassy-green back and orange belly, medium to large spots concentrated on the caudal peduncle and dorsal region (though spotting varies by region) and absent on the pectoral, pelvic, and anal fins, and 180-200 lateral line scales.

Common Carp have two pairs of barbels near their mouth. Brassy yellow to golden brown or dark-olive sides, with white belly. Some red on their tail and anal fin. Dark spot at the base of each scale.

The Cutbow is a mix between a Rainbow Trout and a Cutthroat Trout.

Flathead catfish are a large, robust catfish species with a broad head that is somewhat compressed (hence the name). They are generally brown in overall coloration, with darker mottling over the entire body. They have a huge mouth in which the lower jaw's tip extends past that of the upper jaw. The upper lobe of the square tail is lighter in coloration than the rest.

Freshwater drum or sheephead are a deep-bodied fish with a head that slopes quickly upward from the rounded and subterminal snout. They possess both spiny and soft-rayed dorsal fins, with the soft-dorsal being elongated. Each of the pelvic fins has a single spine, and the anal fin possesses two spines. They also have a strongly upturned lateral line and a rounded to pointed tail fin.