Alright, i've been fishing for almost a year now, and I will admit, I don't know what kind of fish I catch. The only kind I can identify is Bass, and I don't even know what kind :-[ ... does anyone have a good site that will teach you this stuff?...thanks

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You can also check with your DNR and/or cooperative extension to see if there is a guide to Kansas fishes which you could take with you. We have such a guide for New York, but I learned to ID many years ago.

Another thing you can do (I just did this last year, but for aquatic vegetation) is to print out the pictures and descriptions of the common fish and put together your own little field guide.

2 great responses I know Cables and BPS have a big map like poster that just about identifies anything with fins !

Is Cables some new outdoor store that hasn't made it down to Texas yet.  Sorry, Muddy but I know you would of nailed me.

My buddy has a waterproof chart from Bass Pro Shops that is about as big as a piece of notebook paper that identifies on one side most every species of freshwater game fish and on the reverse lots of saltwater gamefish.

I carry a copy of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Freshwater Fishing Guide that has color photos of all of the freshwater fish in Virginia waters, even the Snakehead.

I have had to pull out the publication to try to match what we were catching with the photos in the publication so we would know what they were and if they were baitfish for bass. (Turned out to be white perch.)

So please contact your state's Fish and Game Department and find out if they have any type of fish indentification chart.

I have also seen these types of charts in Wal-Mart so check you your local Wal-Mart store, too.

And I have a big poster of the "Common Fish of Virginia" mounted on poster board (by Ben Franklin Craft shop in Richmond) hanging in my home office which I look at before and after going fishing.  It is great poster and I suggest all guys in Virignia get a copy and have it mounted and hung in your room or office.

What I really want to do is get a small fake shark and take it to Lake Anna and start to fish with it already attached to my hook near where some kids have anchored their parents boat and are swimming in a cove and yell and hold up the shark so they can see it.

I wonder if they would get out of the water? ;D