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Typical salmon, trout, or char. Most hatchery fish have a clipped adipose fin.

BROWN TROUT Brown-colored back with big black spots. A square tail and black and red spots on sides with light blue rings. Hard to catch, easily spooked.

RAINBOW TROUT The most abundant wild and hatchery fish. An olive-bluish back with small black spots. Sides have light red or pink band. Lake ’bows are often all silver.

BROOK TROUT “Brookies” are in the char family (Dolly Varden, Bull Trout, Lake Trout, etc.). Black, blue-gray or green back, mottled light colored markings. Sides have red spots with blue rings. Square tail. Lower fins red, striped with black and white. Prefers colder water.

LAKE TROUT In the char family (Dolly Varden, “brookies” included). Black color is light gray or green. White spots cover back and sides. Indented or split tail.

GILA TROUT Dense pattern of small irregular spots and olive-green upper body. Sides shine gold with a pink band (adults) Cutthroattype yellow mark under jaws. Fins tipped yellow and white. “Endangered with extinction” in N. M. Native to Gila River headwaters. Found in Leopold and Gila Wilderness. Apache trout (not shown) colored like Gila, without pink band and with denser spot pattern. Listed as “threatened.” Found in Apache Sitgreaves N. F. and Ft. Apache Reservation.

RIO GRANDE CUTTHROAT TROUT Brownish green back, large black spots on tail decreasing in number towards head, Red-orange or rose-colored on sides and pink or yellow underneath. Fins have orange tip, red or orange mark under jaws. Found in northern New Mexico, southern Colorado. Isolated populations in southern New Mexico.

NORTHERN PIKE Bluish to gray-green back with yellow to light gold spots in irregular rows. Long slender body, duck-billed snout and very sharp teeth.

KOKANEE SALMON Green-blue back with speckles. Sides and belly silver. Fall spawning turns color to dark red; leathery skin with green head. Male snout hooks and back humps, female body shape stays like trout.

Typical bass, perch, crappie.

LARGEMOUTH BASS Dark green back and sides with dark band of irregular spots along sides. Spiny dorsal fin (9–10 rays) separated from soft dorsal fin by deep notch. Closed upper jaw extends to rear or beyond rear of eyes.