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Especies

Una página por especie: sentidos, hábitos y estaciones.

• Largemouth Bass — Canadian habitat use through local temperature, clarity, flow, cover and prey: understand both movement and precise feeding stations.
• Smallmouth Bass — Canadian habitat use through local temperature, clarity, flow, cover and prey: understand both movement and precise feeding stations.
• Walleye — The north’s low-light specialist: a mirror-eyed (tapetum lucidum) schooling predator that hunts perch at dusk, dawn, and night, migrates tens of kilometers to rock and river spawning grounds at ice-out, and rewards anglers who read light, wind, and depth.
• Northern Pike — The ambush apex of cool, weedy water: a circumpolar S-strike predator that grabs prey crossways in a jaw full of backward-slanted teeth, spawns in flooded marshes at ice-out, and thrives from the U.S. Midwest to the far-north Canadian lakes where bass cannot follow.
• Muskellunge (Muskie) — The fish of ten thousand casts: a low-density apex ambusher that follows more than it strikes, swallows prey a third of its own length, and rewards the angler who finishes every cast with a figure-8.
• Crappie — The suspended-school panfish everyone loves: an up-feeding plankton-and-minnow sipper that hovers mid-column over open basins, spawns in colonies in waves, and rewards anglers who find the school’s exact depth and keep a tiny jig just over its head.
• Trout (Rainbow · Brook · Lake) — A group profile of the three coldwater salmonids northern anglers actually target — the current-loving rainbow, the sensitive headwater brook trout, and the deep-cruising lake trout — united by an oxygen-hungry physiology that makes water temperature the whole game.
• Yellow Perch — The size-sorted schooling grazer of northern lakes: a strictly daytime bottom feeder, the marquee ice-fishing target of Canada and the Great Lakes, and the forage fish that feeds nearly every predator it swims with.

Tablas rápidas de especies

Todas las especies lado a lado, un nivel por casilla: se consulta como un diccionario.

• Habitat — How likely are you to find it on this kind of spot, in this season?
• Water temperature — How actively does it feed at this water temperature? Pick the mode first: the same number means a different fish on the way up than on the way down.
• How it strikes — How typical is this way of attacking for it?
• How it fights — How typical is this behaviour once it is hooked?
• Colour vision — How well does it see — and respond to — this colour or visual cue?
• Senses — How strong is this sense — and how much does the fish rely on it to feed and to stay safe?
• Light & time of day — How well does it feed in this light? (open water unless the row says "under ice")
• Depth — How often does it hold at this depth, in this season?
• Seasonal rhythm — How good is the fishing for it in this phase of the year? Rows are phases, never months: each fish runs its own spawn clock, and latitude moves every date.
• Forage — How important is this prey in the adult fish's diet?
• Lures & presentations — How productive is this presentation for it?
• Water conditions — How well does it do in this kind of water?
• Home-made attractants across species — The species pages hold some fifty recipes — they boil down to these families. How much does each one do for each fish?

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Comparaciones de especies

Dos especies fáciles de confundir, punto por punto.

• Largemouth vs Smallmouth — Compare habitat tendencies and overlap in Canadian waters, without dividing bass into warm-shallow and cold-deep stereotypes.
• Pike vs Muskie — Same ambush chassis, opposite bets: the abundant coolwater pike that spawns first and commits to the strike, against the sparse warm-tolerant muskie that follows, inspects, and grows into the continent's biggest esocid.
• Walleye vs Trout — The cool half of the fishing year, split two ways: the mirror-eyed twilight percid of stained fertile water against the oxygen-hungry daylight salmonids of cold clear water — opposite prime hours, opposite lakes, opposite cultures.
• Crappie vs Perch — The two great panfish live on different floors of the same lake and punch different clocks: the up-feeding, low-light crappie hovering mid-column against the strictly-daylight yellow perch grazing the bottom — and why every choice from depth to bait to season flips between them.