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Blue catfish
* are a more aggressive fish predator that generally inhabits the open water
  - channel catfishs
  - excellent food for humans when they're caught in clear waters
  - good on cut baits and shad
* can grow larger and eat some of the smaller fish in the pond
  - quite large
* dominate the fishery.
* have a forked tail, and are sometimes very similar to channel catfish.

Bonito
* are strong, fast fish with keen eyesight and require a minimum of tackle.
* have large conical teeth on both the upper and lower jaw.

### animal | vertebrate | fish | bony fish | bonito:

Skipjack
* are also shorter lived, with a lifespan of two to three years
  - bonitos
  - the last working boats under sail in the United States
* is the most popular tuna for consumption
  - smallest tuna canned
* occur worldwide in warm seas.

Bowfin
* are considered transitional fishes, developed somewhere between gars and bony fishes
  - spring spawners
* feed on all sorts of aquatic animals-crustaceans, adult insects and larvae, and small fish.

Bream
* All bream are catfish.
* accept pellet fish food.
* are freshwater fish
  - saltwater fish
* become less active and speckled enter the picture as days get shorter and cooler.
* take crickets, worms, and artificial lures.
* tend to drop back into the bottom to the closest channel as each cold front passes.

### animal | vertebrate | fish | bony fish | bream:

Bluegill
* Some bluegills begin spawning in their first year.
* also like to find shelter among water plants and in the shade of trees along banks.
* are FAIR on wax worms or crickets in most lakes
  - FAIR-GOOD crickets or wax worms on in beds
* are GOOD near beds in backs of coves
  - on crickets or worms near beds
* are GOOD on wax worms near shore
  - waxworms at shore cover
  - a member of the sunfish family
  - also active
  - generally carnivorous
  - gregarious and tend to move in groups
  - in slack water, fish there before the wall
  - present and are small
  - shallow, but some real monster gills are in deep water
* average four to ten inches in length.
* do best in clear ponds with vegetation.
* feed mainly on aquatic insects, which are slow-moving creatures
  - primarily on insects, both aquatic and terrestrial
* feeding on larger clearer lakes tends to peak during low light periods.
* frequent the same areas, looking for terrestrial insects.
* grow more rapidly in southern Indiana ponds than northern Indiana ponds.
* have an olive to bronze back, with blue and orange sides
  - small mouths and an oval shaped body
  - some of the best eyesight of all fish, and have good color vision
* inhabit quiet and moderately weedy lakes, ponds, bays, and slow moving streams.
* like to build their nests around other bluegill nests.
* occur throughout the lake.
* often nest in colonies with nests sometimes right next to each other
  - produce more young than the pond can support
* prefer pools in streams, lakes, and ponds
  - slow-moving or standing water with aquatic vegetation or flooded timber
  - smaller baits after ponds and lakes are frozen
  - the quiet, weedy waters where they can hide and feed
  - to eat insects but they also sometimes feed on small fish
* seem to have benefitted from the higher winter pool.
* start spawning.
* suspend over expansive flats while foraging on zooplankton.
* use crickets or worms along steep banks or in standing timber.

### animal | vertebrate | fish | bony fish | bream | bluegill:

Hybrid bluegill
* are a cross between bluegill and green sunfish
  - very attractive and do well in aquariums
* grow up to three times faster than bluegill.
* have a large mouth and train readily to commercial fish feed.

Male bluegill
* build and guard nests in shallow water near stumps and logs.
* guarding nests are woefully easy to catch.