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I'm a Crappie!
Here's a handy guide to identifying some of the common fish you'll find
in Texas freshwater fisheries. Sizes are not relative.
Other Names: Black Bass, Guadalupe Spotted Bass.
Largemouth Bass             Smallmouth Bass               Guadalupe Bass
Other Names: Black Bass, Green Trout, Bigmouth Bass, Lineside Bass.
Other Names: Brown Bass, Brownie, Bronze Bass.
Other Names: Sandbass, Barfish, Streaker, Silver Bass.
Other Names: Kentucky Spotted Bass, Spotted Black Bass.
  Spotted Bass                       White Bass                       Yellow Bass
Other Name: Striper.
Other Names: Striper, Rockfish, Lineside.
    Striped Bass                   Black Crappie                  White Crappie
Other Names: White Perch, Calico Bass.
Other Names: White Perch, Sac-a-lait,
Other Names: Channel Cat, Hump-back Blue.
     Blue Catfish                  Channel Catfish               Flathead Catfish
Other Names: Willow Cat, Forked-tail Cat, Fiddler, Spotted Cat, Lady Cat.
Other Names: Yellow Cat, Opelousa Cat, Pied Cat, Mississippi Cat, Mud Cat, Shovelhead Cat.
Other Names: Polliwog, Chucklehead Cat.
Black Bullhead Catfish      Yellow Bullhead Catfish               Bluegill
Other Names: Polliwog, Chucklehead Cat.
Other Names: Bream, Brim, Sunfish, Perch, Sunpearch.
Other Names: Yellowbelly Sunfish, Redbreasted Bream.
     Green Sunfish                Longear Sunfish         Redbreast Sunfish
Other Names: Goggle-eye, Rock Bass, Branch Perch.
Other Name: Cherry Bream.
Other Names: Shellcracker, Georgia Bream, Cherry Gill, Sunny, Sun Perch.
Other Names: Redeye, Goggle-eye, Red-eyed Bream, Stump Knocker, Mudgapper, Mo-mouth, Morgan, Molly, Rock Bass, Open Mouth, Weed Bass, Wood Bass, Strawberry Perch, Mud Bass, Warmouth Bass.
Other Names: German Carp, European Carp.
   Redear Sunfish                   Warmouth                    Common Carp
    Grass Carp                       Texas Shiner                    Golden Shiner
Other Names: White Amur, Waan Ue.
    Blacktail Shiner                  Red Shiner                 Fathead Minnow
Other Name: Red-horse Minnow.
Other Name: Fathead.
              Alligator Gar                                       Longnose Gar
Other Name: Gator Gar.
Other Names: Needlenose Gar, Billy Gar, Billfish.
             Shortnose Gar                                      Spotted Gar
Other Names: Billy Gar, Stub-nose Gar, Short-billed Gar.
Bigmouth Buffalo               Black Buffalo               Smallmouth Buffalo
Other Names: Mongrel Buffalo, Current Buffalo.
Other Names: Gourdhead, Redmouth Buffalo, Common Buffalo.
Other Names: Grindle, Dogfish, Grinnel, Cypress Trout, Mud Fish.
           Bowfin                     Freshwater Drum                 Red Drum
Other Names: Redfish, Rat Red, Bull Red, or simply
Other Names: Drum Fish, Gaspergou, Gou, Sheepshead.
  Rainbow Trout                  Threadfin Shad                Gizzard Shad
Other Names: Shad, Hickory Shad, Herring, Skipjack.
Other Names: Rio Grande Perch, Texas Chiclid.
Other Name: Freshwater Eel.
Other Names: Pike, Jackfish.
Other Name: Walleyed Perch.
Other Names: Spoonbill, Spoonbill Cat, Shovelnose Cat.
Rio Grande Chiclid                Walleye                              Paddlefish
                American Eel                                 Chain Pickerel