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
