Fish Identification
Bass Identification Chart
* Largemouth bass X Alabama bass and smallmouth bass X Alabama bass hybrids may have a small patch of teeth on the tongue.
Largemouth Bass
Found statewide
Smallmouth Bass
Found west of I-77 & in the Uwharrie and Dan rivers
Spotted Bass
Found west of I-77
Alabama Bass (Invasive)
Found west of I-77 & in the Cape Fear, Yadkin-Pee Dee, & Roanoke river basins
Morone Identification Chart
Striped Bass
Bodie Bass (striped bass hybrid)
White Bass
White Perch
Species Identification Chart
White Crappie
Black Crappie
Bluegill
Pumpkinseed
Redbreast Sunfish
Redear Sunfish
Roanoke Bass
Rock Bass
Warmouth
Brown Trout
Rainbow Trout
Brook Trout
Yellow Perch
Walleye
Muskellunge
Chain Pickerel
Blue Catfish (Invasive east of Continental Divide)
Bullhead Catfish
Channel Catfish
Flathead Catfish (Invasive east of Continental Divide)
White Catfish
