Fishing

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• Longnose Sucker

  Recent attempts to find longnose suckers in Connecticut have failed.

• Mimic Shiner

  Looking a lot like other shiners gave the mimic shiner its name.

• Minnows and Carps

  Minnows are an extremely diverse family with abundant representatives over most of the world. Learn about all the minnows who call Connecticut home!

• Mudminnows

  Mudminnows are a small family of the Northern Hemisphere that look similar to killifish and minnows, but are actually more closely related to pike.

• Mullets

  Mullets are torpedo-shaped fishes with horizontal mouths.

• Mummichog

  They are sold as bait at coastal bait shops (where they are often called “killies” or “mummies”) and are popular due to their toughness and ability to survive in fresh water.

• Ninespine Stickleback

  Ninespine stickleback males build little tunnel-shaped nests out of bits of vegetation.

• Northern Pike

  The northern pike is Connecticut’s largest strictly freshwater gamefish.

• Perches and Darters

  Perches are distributed throughout temperate fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere. However, all of the many species of diminutive darters are native only to North America.

• Pike and Pickerel

  Two native and one introduced pike species exist in Connecticut. All members of the family are predacious, primarily feeding on fish.

• Pumpkinseed

  One of our most colorful freshwater fishes.

• Pupfishes

  The pupfishes and killifishes are very similar and were once included in the same family.

• Rainbow Smelt

  Smelt are important forage fish for large pelagic predators such as striped bass in estuaries and brown trout in lakes.

• Rainbow Trout

  Rainbow trout seldom survive the summer in Connecticut and natural reproduction is rare.

• Rainwater Killifish

  Where numerous, rainwater killifish are thought to be an effective control of mosquito larvae.