Redear Sunfish (Shellcracker)

ETYMOLOGY:
Lepomis means scaled operculum.
Microlophus means small nape.
CHARACTERISTICS: Locally known as shellcracker, redear sunfishes are one of Alabama’s least colorful but most sought after sunfishes. The back on this species is light green to brown with scattered darker spots. The light gray to silver sides have 34 to 43 lateral line scales. Lower surfaces of the [...]

Alligator Gar

Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula) are a huge fish that looks like a cross between an alligator and a fish.

Alligator Gar Description – This long streamline fish has a head that is flattened and looks much like an alligator. The tail is wide and rounded and there are two fins on top and bottom just in [...]

Snakehead Fish

Snakehead fish are native to China but are imported into the US as aquarium fish as well as food fish. Snakeheads can cause serious problems to native fish populations if they get established in US waters.
A snakehead was found recently in a river in Wisconsin. Incredibly, it was not identified before it was released back [...]

Atlantic Sturgeon

Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) are one of 26 species of sturgeon. The Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon are both native to Florida rivers since it lives on the Atlantic coast and the Atlantic is the one that has injured people in boats in that state since it gets a lot bigger. There is also a Gulf [...]

Green Sunfish

Green Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) are common in much of the US and are good to eat.

Green Sunfish Discription – Larger mouth than most sunfish and thicker, longer body, more like a warmouth than other sunfish. Dorsal fins are connected and there is an extended gill cover edged with ligh red, pink or yellow. Body is [...]

Flathead Catfish

Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) are one of the biggest catfish species and are excellent to eat. They are a great sport fish and put up a great fight even if they are ugly.

Flathead Catfish Discripton – Squarish, not forked tail, long head with wide distinctly flattened head and eyes are flat and oval shapped. Lower [...]

Girl Catches Big Catfish In Spain

Jessica Wanstall, an 11 year old girl, landed a 194 pound catfish in the Ebro River in Spain. The fish is longer then she is tall and outweighs her by about 100 pounds.
It took Jessica 20 minutes to land the huge fish. She was fishing with her father and it is unclear if he helped [...]

Bluegill Fish

Bluegill – (Lepomis macrochirus) are our most common game fish sunfish. They are easy to catch and can be found just about anywhere there is freshwater.

Bluegill Fish Descripton – A round shapped fish that is highly variable color ranges from dark blue or almos tpurple to yellow, with six to eight verticle bars on [...]

Crappie

Crappie – White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis)(picture) and Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)(picture) are very similar and very popular fish. They are often found schooling together and most anglers can not tell the difference when they catch one of each

Crappie Description – Black and white crappie are the same colors ranging from dark olive to black [...]

2010 WALMART FLW Tour Schedule Announced

Schedule Culminates with Georgia Hosting Forrest Wood Cup
(Jul. 10, 2009 – PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.)… At the final Walmart FLW Tour stop for 2009 in Plattsburgh, N.Y., FLW Outdoors announced the 2010 Walmart FLW Tour schedule that is highlighted by the Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Aug. 5-8. The 2010 schedule features world-famous fisheries, [...]