(plural same) a fish caught by anglers for sport, especially (in fresh water) salmon and trout and (in the sea) billfishes, sharks, bass, and mackerel. Compare with coarse fish
All fish species except endangered and threatened species This includes trout, char, grayling, salmon, muskellunge hybrids, carp, bullhead, wiper, saugeye, smelt, splake, black bass, walleye, northern pike, bass, crappie, sunfish, whitefish, catfish, drum, shad, perch, sucker, topminnow or minnow
Species of fish caught for sport, such as trout or bass Many of these species show more sensitivity to environmental changes than so-called rough fish