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Enid Lake holds the world record for white crappie at 5 lbs 3 oz (2.35 kg), [1] and holds the Mississippi state record for shortnose gar at 5.83 lb (2.64 kg), as well as the state record for spotted gar at 8.1 lb (3.7 kg). [a] [2] Enid Dam is an earthen dam across the Yocona River. The dam is 110 ft (34 m) high and 8,400 ft (2,600 m) long at ...
The spotted gar is a voracious predator. Its sharp-toothed beak is very effective at catching fast moving prey. A diet study of the spotted gar reported the diet of a spotted gar consists of four species of fish; golden topminnow, warmouth, bluegill, and spotted sunfish, which adds to 18.1% of total food volume in the stomach, while 57.5% of the stomach content was shrimp. [5]
Spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) The spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) is a smaller species of gar, [34] measuring just under four feet long and weighing 15 pounds on average. [34] Like Florida gars, female spotted gars are typically larger than male spotted gars. [46] This gar has dark spots covering its head, body, and fins. [34]
Spotted gar: North America Lepisosteus osseus Linnaeus, 1758: Longnose gar: east coast of North and Central America in freshwater lakes and as far west as Kansas and Texas and southern New Mexico Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque, 1820: Shortnose gar: Montana to the west and the Ohio River to the east, southwards to the Gulf Coast.
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana allow regulated sport fishing of alligator gar. Texas has one of the best remaining fisheries for alligator gar, and in concert with its efforts to maintain a viable fishery, imposed a one-per-day bag limit on them in 2009. [ 44 ]
2024 cicada map: Check out where Broods XIII, XIX are projected to emerge The two cicada broods are projected to emerge in a combined 17 states across the South and Midwest.
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The location of the State of Tennessee in the United States of America. Topographic map of Tennessee. The U.S. state of Tennessee has a uniquely diverse array of fresh-water fish species, owing to its large network of rivers and creeks, with major waterways in the state including the Mississippi River which forms its western border, the Tennessee River, the Cumberland River, and the Duck River.