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Article: What's (on) my line? Follow this fish story: What's the difference between a brown trout and a brook trout? Or a smallmouth bass and a largemouth bass. Here are some characteristics to help identify Pennsylvania's freshwater fish.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Byline: Roger Mallon
Jul. 1--They don't call them chain pickerel for nothing. And the rainbow trout is easy to identify, but then there's the story of the little boy who came home one day with a stringer full of suckers and thought he caught trout for supper.
Some folks have trouble telling the difference between a brown trout and a brookie, and not that it matters much, but there are two kinds of crappies in Pennsylvania, the black and the white. Do you know the difference?
Freshwater fish identification is a matter of practice, study and a little memorization. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has an extensive collection of booklets, ...