Trout
* also eat grasshoppers and beetles when they happen to fall onto the water.
* also feed on adult mayflies while they rest on the water's surface to lay their eggs
  - midges as they are hatching and after they have hatched into winged adults
  - migrate into Sabine Lake in the early spring months
  - take cover behind large, midcurrent rocks
  - vary a great deal in size
* are a fresh water species of fish that are essential to many food chains including humans
  - good eating fish especially when deep-fried
  - popular bait for striped bass in several other states
  - abundant in Ogden, Weber, and South Fork streams
  - aggressive fish that defend individual territories in the stream
  - both a predator of and competitor with the native frogs
  - bullies
  - cold water fish and are easy for even the novice angler to catch
  - cold-water fish
  - commonly large
  - concentrated and hungry
  - creatures of habit, and they are conditioned by their environment
  - especially selective on rivers with a population of wild fish
  - extremely vulnerable to degraded stream quality from increased development
  - fragile creatures that can live only in the most pristine of places, in cold pure waters
  - fresh water, shrimp are salt water
  - generally cultured in raceways or ponds supplied with flowing water
  - highly variable in color
* are in shallow water and easily caught in the first part of the season
  - the shallow water coves because the water is warmer
  - large, plentiful, and healthy
  - mixed in size with many large to huge rainbows and browns
  - perhaps the most sensitive of all Wisconsin fish
  - plentiful, and can be caught with worms or eggs, spinners or lures or artificial flies
  - predominant fishes, locating their food mainly by sight in the water
  - sensitive to habitat, needing cold and clean streams
  - still the most important species in Utah
  - very spooky, especially in shallow water
* begin feeding selectively on nymphs as they rise from the bottom.
* cautiously rest in the cold pools, waiting for unsuspecting insects.
* consume aquatic insects, invertebrates and small fish.
* continue to be taken during periods of low or no generation.
* depend on the aquatic invertebrates.
* eat almost any smaller animal, including insects and tiny fish
  - mayflies and other macroinvertebrates
  - the tadpoles of the yellow-legged frog
* embody the spirit and complexity of our natural world.
* especially like to hide under fallen logs.
* find it difficult to tolerate each other's presence, especially in smaller streams and rivers.
* frequently swallow live baits more deeply.
* generally take large mayflies and caddis with an audible gulp
  - the fly by way of suction, even when they strike
* get sick in polluted water, as do the aquatic animals they eat for food.
* grow increasingly wary with age and experience.
* have body language
  - teeth along the length of the bone and char only on the front end of the bone
  - thick bodies and blunt heads, and vary in colour
* inhabit some of the most beautiful places on earth
  - specific lies in the river based upon their size
* learn to avoid fishing lines - after being caught once they keep well away from bait.
* live all around Colorado.
* live in both streams and rivers
  - many of the lakes and streams in both ranges
* often cruise at night
  - lie close in to access better feeding
* provide one of the major sources of recreation in much of Virginia.
* really change their appearance during their spawning period as with the salmon.
* require a good volume of water
  - cold, clean, undisturbed streams
  - cool oxygenated water, and feed on minnows and insects
* rise everywhere, even near the streamer fisherman's feet.
* stay in the deep water.
* suffer directly from the toxic and chemical wastes being dumped directly into the rivers.
* take much of their food below the surface of the water.
* tend to seek out and congregate in calm waters.
* thrive in the cool streams of Western North Carolina.