The warmouth or "goggleye"
It is usually found in quiet lakes with mud bottoms and abundant vegetation where it often
hides in hollow trees or stumps. Color is typically olive-brown with dark markings, and unlike its lookalike cousins, the rock bass, the warmouth has three anal fin spines and a rough patch of teeth on the tongue.
The paddlefish or "spoonbill catfish" has a long paddle-shaped snout distinguishing it from all other Arkansas fish. Sometimes exceeding 100 pounds, this large smooth-skinned fish has declined in numbers due to dwindling habitat and is now found primarily in the Arkansas, Mississippi and lower White rivers. It has a large toothless mouth and feeds predominately on microscopic plants and animals filtered through many fine gill-rakers. Those taken by sport anglers are usually caught by blind snagging in dam tailwaters. Paddlefish eggs are processed and sold as caviar, and the quality of Arkansas
paddlefish caviar is said to equal that of world-renowned caviar from the Soviet Union.