Fish Iowa - Fish Species - Lake chubsucker

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The Lake Chubsucker is found in the clear, quiet, heavily vegetated pools of oxbow lakes, sloughs of large rivers and sluggish stream backwaters with soft bottoms of fine gravel, sand, or a mixture of organic detritus, mud and sand. It is highly intolerant of turbidity, siltation and high gradients. In Illinois, it lives mostly in clear, heavily vegetated natural lakes. In the Missouri, the Lake Chubsucker has been taken in overflow pools off the main channels of large streams but prefers clear, sluggish ditches with abundant submerged aquatic vegetation and substrates of sand or mixed silt and organic debris. In Louisiana, it is often found in the impounded waters of lakes, bayous and oxbows and only occasionally in flowing waters with abundant vegetation.

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