Marine
Life in Lake Michigan
Length:
Weight:
4 ounces
Coloring: silvery with blue or blue-green metallic luster on back
Common names: mulhaden, grey herring, golden shad, seth, skipjack
Length:
26
inches
Weight:
4
pounds
Coloring:
brown,
green or blue on top; silvery on sides, and silvery white below
Common names: Kennebec salmon, sebago, sebago salmon, grilse, kelt
Length:
9
inches
Weight:
8
ounces
Coloring:
silvery
with some pink and purple iridescence,with a greenish tinge above lateral line
and a silvery white ventral surface
Common names: bloater chub, bloat, chub, Hoy's cisco, cisco de fumage (French)
Length:
10 to 16 inches
Weight:
11 ounces to 2 pounds
Coloring:
olive-green to dark brown on back, lighter on sides and silvery white on
underside
Common names: Eastern brook trout, speckled trout, coaster, aurora trout, square-tail, sea trout
Length:
16 to 24 inches
Weight:
2 to 8 pounds
Coloring: light brown or tawny back, becoming silvery on the sides and belly
Common names: brownie, German brown trout, German trout, European brown trout, breac
Length:
15 to 22 inches
Weight:
1 to 3 pounds
Coloring:
mottled olive-green to shades of brown on back; cream-colored underneath
Common names: lawyer, American burbot, ling, eelpout, loche, freshwater cod
Length:
1 to 16 inches
Weight:
1 to 7 pounds
Coloring:
olive-green on back; yellowish belly
Common
names:
German carp, European carp, mirror carp, leather carp
Length: 1 to 16 inches
Length:
20 to 35 inches
Weight:
3 to 15 pounds
Coloring:
iridescent green to blue-green on back; sides below lateral line silvery;
silvery to white underside
Common names: king salmon, tyee, spring salmon, quinnat
Length:
11 to 26 inches
Weight:
2 to 8 pounds
Coloring:
steel-blue to slightly green on back; bright silver on sides; white underside
Common names: coho, silver salmon, sea trout, blueback
Length:
up to about 14 inches, although it may become quite large in rivers
Weight:
5-15 pounds, world record is 54 1/2 pounds
Coloring:
Gray or silvery in turbid waters, bronze-colored in clearer waters. The head
is somewhat darker than the rest of the body; the ventral portion of the fish
is white. The pectoral and pelvic fins are white, but the rest of the fins are
dusky.
Common names: sheepshead, croaker, thunder pumper, lake drum, grunt, bubbler, grinder
Weight: 15 to 25 mm
Length:
11 to 15 inches
Weight:
6 ounces to 2 pounds
Coloring:
silvery with pink to purple iridescence
Common names: cisco, tullibee, freshwater herring
Length:
3 to 5 feet
Weight:
10 to 80 pounds
Coloring:
olive-brown to grey on back and sides, with white belly
Common names: freshwater sturgeon, rock sturgeon,bony sturgeon, smoothback
Length:
17 to 27 inches
Weight:
3 to 9 pounds
Coloring:
light spots on darker background, light underside
Common names: Great Lakes trout, laker, namaycush,togue, grey trout, mountain trout
Length:
17 to 22 inches
Weight:
1.5 to 4 pounds
Coloring:
silvery with pale greenish-brown back, fins clear or lightly pigmented
Common names: whitefish, Sault whitefish, gizzard fish, grande coregone, (French), Attikumaig (Chippewa)
Length:
12 to 18 inches
Weight:
12 ounces to 2 pounds
Coloring:
dark olive or grey to nearly black on back and upper sides, cream to white on
lower sides and ventral surface of head and body
Common names: sturgeon sucker, northern sucker, red sucker
Length:
varies by lake, maximum of over 5 feet
, trophy
size of more than 50 inches
Weight:
varies by lake, maximum of almost 70 pounds, trophy size of 40 pounds or more
Coloring:
dark colored bars on a light-colored background of silvery green to light
brown
Common names: muskie or musky, maskinonge, leopard muskellunge
Length:
18 to 30 inches
Weight:
20 ounces to 8 pounds
Coloring:
dark shades green, through olive green to brown on back and upper sides;
lighter on lower sides; cream to milk-white on underside
Common names: pike, great northern pike, jack, pickerel
Length:
7 to 9 inches
Weight:
3 ounces
Coloring:
silvery with pale green back; iridescent purple, blue and pink on sides
Common names: smelt, American smelt, leefish, freshwater smelt, frost fish
Length:
20 to 30 inches
Weight:
2 to 8 pounds
Coloring:
steel-blue, blue-green, yellow-green to almost brown on back; silvery sides;
silvery white below
Common names: steelhead trout, coast rainbow trout, silver trout
Length:
4 to 10 inches (250 mm)
Weight:
Coloring:
grey with blotches of black and brown over their bodies, dorsal fin may be
tinged with green, the front dorsal fin has a distinctive large black spot
Common names: Round goby, goby
Length:
12 to 19 inches
Weight:
2 to 3 pounds
Coloring:
brown with green tinge on back, silvery sides and silvery white belly
Common names: menominee, pilot fish, frost fish, round-fish, menominee whitefish
Length:
12 to 20 inches
Weight:
8 to 13 ounces
Coloring:
grey-blue back, metallic violet on sides, shading to silver-white underneath
Common names: great sea lamprey, lake lamprey, lamprey, lamprey eel
Length:
5 to 12 inches
Coloring:
dark brown or gray body, may be darkly spotted
Length:
15 to 20 inches
Weight:
1.5 to 5 pounds
Coloring:
brown, golden-brown through olive to green on back; sides lighter; cream to
milk-white underside
Common names: northern smallmouth bass, black bass, brown bass, white or mountain trout
Length:
13 to 25 inches
Weight:
1 to 5 pounds
Coloring:
olive-brown to golden-brown to yellow on back; paler sides; yellowish white
underside
Common names: walleye pike, yellow walleye, pickerel, yellow pickerel, pike-perch, wall-eyed pickerel, dore (French)
Length:
Usually 5-7 inches (127-178mm)
Weight:
Average 8 ounces
Coloring:
variable, dark grayish-green, dark silvery green, or dark brown to almost
black on back; pale olive or silvery green on sides; silvery white on belly
Common names: white perch, narrow-mouthed bass, silver perch, sea perch
Length:
12 to 20 inches
Weight:
2 to 4 pounds
Coloring:
grey, coppery brown through brown to black on back; creamy white on lower
sides and below
Common names: common sucker, eastern sucker, grey sucker, mullet, black mullet, bay fish
Length:
6 to 10 inches
Weight:
6 to 16 ounces
Coloring:
bright green to olive to golden brown on back; yellow-green, yellow on sides;
grey to milk-white below
Common
names:
perch, lake perch, American perch
Length:
fingernail-sized
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