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Fish of the Middle Ohio River

Catfish Family

 

   

Blue Catfish

                      30 pounder - W. D. Pearson Photo                      50 pounder - Falls of the Ohio Photo, May 2003

Note the notched tail.

  

Flathead Catfish

ORSANCO Traveling Aquarium, October 2002, Alan Goldstein / IDNR Photo

Note the squared tail.

     

Flathead Catfish

ORSANCO Traveling Aquarium, October 2002 / Park Aquarium 2010,  Alan Goldstein / IDNR Photos

 

    

                                  Brindled Madtom                                                     Yellow Bullhead

W. D. Pearson Photos

                              

Created April 5, 2010