Missouri-Yellowstone Adopt-A-Fish Back to Adopt-A-Fish Home Page Missouri-Yellowstone fish species Home to 45 different species There are 45 different species of fish found in Montana's Missouri River below Fort Peck Dam and in the lower reaches of the Yellowstone River. That's just more than half of the 86 species of fish found in the whole state of Montana. Of the 45 total species, 30 of them are native species. Native species are colored BLUE while introduced species are colored RED. Click on each species to learn more about them. Bigmouth Buffalo Black Bullhead Blue Sucker Brassy Minnow Brook Stickleback Brown Trout Burbot Channel Catfish Chinook Salmon Cisco Common Carp Emerald Shiner Fathead Minnow Flathead Chub Freshwater Drum Goldeye Iowa Darter Lake Chub Lake Trout Lake Whitefish Longnose Dace Longnose Sucker Mountain Whitefish Northern Pike Northern Redbelly Dace Paddlefish Pallid Sturgeon Rainbow Smelt Rainbow Trout River Carpsucker Sauger Shorthead Redhorse Shortnose Gar Shovelnose Sturgeon Sicklefin Chub Smallmouth Bass Smallmouth Buffalo Spottail Shiner Stonecat Sturgeon Chub Walleye Western Silvery/Plains Minnow White Crappie White Sucker Yellow Perch Color fish artwork on these pages is by Joe Tomelleri from the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks CD "Fish of Montana." Photos on these pages are provided by the American Fisheries Society. Fish details and characteristics on these pages are taken from the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks book "A Field Guide to Montana Fishes" by George D. Holton and Howard E. Johnson with black and white fish artwork by Harold (Rich) Stevenson. Copyright, 2002-07 Montana PikeMasters Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks