Rough Fish

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Rough Fish: - Fish not prized for sport or eating, such as gar and suckers. Most are more tolerant of changing environmental conditions than are game or food species.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Rough Fish::

Bill Marchel: Rough fish get the point from bowfishermen  -  Jul 8, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune,The rough fish were feeding, leaving only subtle signs, barely rippling the water's surface. "I should have brought along my bowfishing equipment," I said

Angling is not just about the popular species  -  Jul 30, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,Would you rather work a lake and not get hits from the game fish you're chasing, or rather pick up an occasional so-called rough fish that will raise your

Back to School? Try Back Outdoors  -  Aug 2, 2008
RedOrbit,...and general shooting skills) a chance for some actual mid-lake bowfishing for the myriads of alien carp and rough fish now inhabiting Hovey Lake.

SL dredging season 'a long, tough journey'  -  Jul 31, 2008
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune,The project would also help restoration efforts by keeping rough fish like carp out of Little Lake by limiting their spawning areas.

City sets $8000 for lake treatment in 2009  -  Jul 31, 2008
Albert Lea Tribune,...to blue-green algae and from game fish to rough fish, disappearance of aquatic plants and reductions in macroinvertebrates on the bottom of the lakes.

Which State Has More Bald Eagles, New Hampshire or Vermont?  -  Jul 24, 2008
NHPR,...a lot of surface body area and there’sa lot of fish, a lot of rough fish—there’re carp and suckers, there’s bass as well as a river nearby with trout,

Fish Kill Puzzles DNR  -  Jul 9, 2008
KAALtv.com,..."Because rough fish inhabit those unstable habitats you can see a kill like that," says Vorland. It’s also possible that the carp have contracted a disease

Great Outdoors Almanac  -  Jul 17, 2008
Green Bay Press Gazette,Meanwhile, Green Bay anglers are finding mixed catches of bass, perch, walleyes and rough fish while trolling, drifting or casting crawlers,

Iowa lakes show little impact from long winter  -  Jul 11, 2008
Mason City Globe Gazette,Little Swan Lake, Ingham, Silver Lake at Ayrshire came through the winter in good shape with fish kill was limited to mostly rough fish.

OCARC to host 21st fishing tourney  -  Jul 11, 2008
Orange Leader,Other divisions include White perch, Catfish, Croaker, Grinnel, Rough Fish and Gar. First-place in those categories will garner the winners $100.

Great Outdoors Almanac  -  Jul 10, 2008
Green Bay Press Gazette,Walleyes, bass, catfish, panfish, rough fish and an occasional muskie are being hooked. Try nightcrawlers, leeches and stickbaits.

Carp die, but cause unknown  -  Jul 8, 2008
In-Forum,Carp, which contribute to water cloudiness by stirring sediment and freeing phosphorus that feeds algae, are considered by some to be a rough fish,

Lake Sinissippi Association continues fish program  -  Nov 27, 2007
Watertown Daily Times,They returned again this month, removing in excess of another 40000 pounds of rough fish. Knipper said the fishermen plan to be back later this year,

Murky lakes: What to do?  -  Nov 26, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),..."These shallow lakes are ... impacted by rough fish and curlyleaf pond weed, which grows quickly in the spring, dies in June and releases nutrients that

Outdoors: Hmm. Where have all the hunters gone?  -  Nov 16, 2007
Albert Lea Tribune,Fisheries and habitat assessments indicated rough fish continue to have deleterious impacts despite the low water levels and partial winterkill,

'Coyote man' makes his mark bagging wild game  -  Nov 26, 2007
Gary Post Tribune,Catfish, dogfish, carp, buffalo, shovelnose sturgeon -- rough fish are all you're allowed to take out of fresh water." Tom, the first time I ever met you

Lake Byllesby gets cleaned up  -  Nov 8, 2007
Cannon Falls Beacon,...special netting spread so fish swim freely, and within an hour, the fish are sorted with game fish thrown back while the carp (rough fish) are removed.

Watershed district seeks grants  -  Nov 15, 2007
Albert Lea Tribune,Held a public hearing on the Pickerel Lake rough fish barrier. The engineer for the fish barrier was absent from the public hearing, and the board only

Changes for birds, fish flowing through marsh  -  Aug 25, 2007
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription),Many of the game fish escaped into an outlet stream that empties into the Fox River, while the rough fish swam into the shallows of the draining compound,

Hot enough for you? Fish are doing fine  -  Aug 19, 2007
St. Cloud Times,...“We lost some fish this summer, but it wasn’ta complete die-off, primarily young panfish and rough fish.� Ironically, the Mississippi River,

A fish fetish  -  Jul 31, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),Carp, the bottom-feeders of the aquatic world, are sometimes called "rough fish." But that hardly describes the refined beauties swimming in Dick Hadley's

If you’re wild about walleyes, head to Lake Erie  -  Aug 17, 2007
Bloomington Pantagraph,Brad Bishop estimated the group caught fish weighing at least 300 pounds counting sheephead and other rough fish. “We were surprised,� said Bishop,

Shawn Clark column: Grab your bow; let's go fishing  -  Aug 12, 2007
Sheboygan Press,If you own a bow, the only other things you will need are some arrows specially designed for hunting carp or other rough fish, a spool that attaches to your

Times Writers Group: We all can help curb algae problem  -  Aug 13, 2007
St. Cloud Times,..."This growth leads to the buildup of muck on the bottom, and the replacement of sport fish, such as bass and walleye, by rough fish like carp. ".

August is a hot time for catching walleye  -  Aug 2, 2007
Petoskey News-Review,Bass, pike, walleyes, trout, suckers, carp and some other rough fish feed right along with the nobler species, dining on minnows.

Lessons in bass on the big lake  -  Jul 28, 2007
Barre Montpelier Times Argus,...(By the way, the bowfin gets a pretty bad rap as a rough fish, but if you've ever fought it out with one they put up a hell of a battle.

Youth participate in fishing derby  -  Aug 2, 2007
Wahpeton Daily News,Brunkhorst said all the rough-fish that are caught are taken down to the zoo. "We feed them to the bears," he said. "It's like ice-cream to them," Bell

Lemonfish biting around rigs, buoys  -  Aug 1, 2007
Orange Leader,There are also categories giving $100 for first place, $50 for second and $25 for third for white perch (crappie), catfish, croaker, grinnel, rough fish

Starring Schunk  -  Aug 19, 2007
Myrtle Beach Sun News,He loved rock, played drums in the high school marching band, never did homework and jammed in his band, the Rough Fish. On a whim, he decided to take an

Great Outdoors Almanac  -  Aug 2, 2007
Green Bay Press Gazette,The Fox River and west shore tributaries are providing mixed-bag action, mostly for catfish, rough fish, bass and panfish. Nightcrawlers are a good

Rainier climb a pinnacle  -  Aug 11, 2007
Augusta Chronicle (subscription),Robbie Robertson and Bryan Cates, both of Evans, and Martinez resident Ray Fitzgerald, shot 480 rough fish during the 14-hour tournament.




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