This Christmas marks the end of my 1st year fly fishing. I didn’t go all out fly fishing only, but I caught a good many fish off the old long rod. My question is how many different species of fish have you caught while fly fishing? I have caught:
Every fish that swims, other than the sperm whale and the great white shark!
:roll:
Bob
Let’s see…
Brook Trout
Brown trout
Rainbow Trout
Northern Pike (completely by accident)
Striped Bass (saltwater)
Bluefish
Summer Flounder
Weakfish (seatrout in New England)
False Albacore
…that’s it for 2008
Fishin,
Congrats, sounds like you’re doing fine and off to a great start.
Not all in 2008, but over the years
FW
Brook, brown, rainbow, splake, cutthroat, cutbow, steelhead trout. Landlocked (atlantic), chinook salmon. Largemouth, smallmouth, and red eye bass. Northern pike and pickerel. Bluegill, white and yellow perch, white and black crappies, and other panfish. Whitefish, chubs, etc. American and hickory shad.
SW
Striped bass, bluefish, weakfish, summer flounder (fluke), window pane flounder, sea robin, spanish mackerel, bonito, false albacore, tarpon, bonefish, lady fish, gaffsotail catfish, snook, ?speckled trout?, mangrove and other snappers, jack crevelle, redfish, black drum, needlefish, mahi, yellowtail tuna, lemon shark, barracuda.
Glad you specified FISH species. I’ve also caught species of trees and shrubbery to numerous to list, as well as a few species of mammals including Homo sapiens…
peregrines
Largemouth bass
Crappie
Bluegill
Stumpknocker
Shellcracker
Channel Catfish
Rainbow trout
Brown trout
Barramundi
Blue tilapia
Redbreast sunfish
Oscar
Mayan cichlid
Gar
Spotted tilapia
Midas cichlid
Peacock bass
Bullseye snakehead
Bowfin
Brown bullhead
Coho salmon
Walleye
Sucker
White amur
Spotted seatrout
Silver seatrout
Flounder
Mullet
Spanish mackerel
King mackerel
Cobia
Bonefish
Permit
Little tunny
Tripletail
Barracuda
Bluefish
Redfish
Snook
Sailcat
Sheepshead
Pompano
Bonnethead shark
Mutton snapper
Pinfish
Puffer
Houndfish
Needlefish
Mangrove snapper
Dolphin
In no particular order:
Brook trout
Brown trout
Rainbow trout / Steelhead
Cutthroat trout
Atlantic Salmon (landlocked only)
Silver (Coho) Salmon
Arctic Grayling
Mountain whitefish
Bluegill
Red-breast sunfish
Pumpkinseed
Long-ear sunfish
Black crappie
Eastern chain pickerel
Smallmouth bass
Largemouth bass
Warmouth
Rock bass/ red eye
Fallfish
Creek chub
Rosyside Dace
Blacknose Dace
Common Carp
(Several other species of the minnow/carp family that I couldn’t id.)
Sand dab (while fishing for steelhead in an estuary!)
Bluefish
Several crayfish, but I have no idea as to the species (obviously not fish, but it’s got fish in the name!)
I’m sure I’ forgetting some.
i’ve been fly fishing for 2 years now and it’s not much of a list but i’ve caught:
rainbow trout
brown trout
brook trout
different kinds of sunfish
bluegill
largemouth bass
smallmouth bass
sucker
creek chub
northern pike
warmouth
Good afternoon all, including those deep in ice and snow.
Myself, I have only caught a few different types on fish on fly and instead of chasing numbers of different types decided many years ago, to just chase a couple of different types and become ‘good’ at finding and tricking these selected fish to take a fly.
Kind regards,
UB
PS While I lay in the pool drinking ice cold beer, I think of you all deep in the coldest snow and ice…maybe.
rainbow trout
brook trout
sunfish
bluegill
silver bass
largemouth bass
smallmouth bass
rock bass
northern pike
chain pickerel
Trout
-rainbow, brown, brook, cutthroat
Bluegill
-most all the varieties
Largemouth bass
Crappie
Rock bass
Fall fish
This year I caught all five Pacific salmon in Alaska; king, silver, chum, red and pink. Also caught rainbows, dollies, arctic char, lake trout and grayling.
In saltwater I caught lingcod, greenling, halibut and several flavors of rockfish.
Some years I get to fish for many more species…
I’ve mainly warmwater fly fished but here’s a list of stuff I remember;
Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Spotted bass
Striper
Hybrid bass
White bass
Yellow bass
Crappie
Blue catfish
Channel catfish
Drum
Carp
Shellcracker
Sauger
walleye
Skipjack shad
Gar
Rainbow trout
Brown trout
Brook trout
Bluegill (every species found in TN and KY)
and a few species of minnows, chubs etc.
Don’t really plan on expanding the list just making the ones on the list bigger.
Go catch a fish,
Gary
large mouth bass
bream
red ear
catfish
crappiee
trout
and a turtle
white bass
wipers
15 years of fly fishing. 77 species by my count, 35 of them in my local area. 25 others were on one trip to Australia. Fishing the saltwater obviously provides access to more species. I may have missed a couple. I’d be happy if the only fish on the list was bluegill.
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freshwater
Trout, Rainbow
Trout, Brown
Tin Foil Barb
Earth Eater
Common snakehead
Giant Snakehead
Peacock bass [temensis]
Peacock bass [monoculus]
Nile Tilapia
Tilapia [black w/ white thin stripes]
Giant Gourami
Saltwater
Queenfish
Tarpon [indo-pacific]
Greasy Grouper
Tiger Grouper
Johnson’s grouper
Coral trout
Stone fish
spanish flag snapper
finger mark snapper
Barramundi
Giant trevelly
Giant herring
Milkfish
Half beak [ballyhoo]
yellowtail scad
Barracuda
Sergent Major
Let’s see…
Largemouth Bass
Bluegill
Green Sunfish
Pumpkinseed Sunfish
Longear Sunfish
Redear
Rock Bass
White Bass
Wipers
Crappie
Catfish
Rainbow Trout
Brown Trout
Chubs
Dace
That’s all I can recall!
In 2+ years of fly-fishing:
-Peacock Bass
-Largemouth Bass
-Smallmouth Bass
-White Bass
-Wiper
-Black Crappie
-White Crappie
-Oscar
-Bluegill
-Hybrid Sunfish
-Green Sunfish
-Channel Catfish
-Carp
-Spotted Tilapia
-Mayan Cichlid
And on the odd occasion where I chucked flies with spinning gear:
-Steelhead
-Chinook Salmon
-Rainbow Trout
when I started fly fishing I lived in Southern California. So I started with salt water.
Barracuda
Bonita
Herring
Spanish Mackeral
Various Sand Shark
Tom Cod
Coho Salmon in NY
Steelhead in NY
Brown Trout in NY
Pike in NY
Yellow Perch in NY
Eel in NY
Rainbow Trout in TN
Brown Trout in TN
Blue Gill in TN
Smallmouth Bass in TN
Largemouth Bass in TN
Striper in TN
Blue Catfish in TN
Carp in TN
It isn’t a long list and there were a few other sunfish.
One of these days I will get a Brook Trout.
Trout - cutthroat, rainbow, cuttbow, brown, brook and bull - and Mountain Whitefish.
Off the top of my head, still more to catch. I caught a few other saltwater fish that i have no idea what they were. The locals called one them a queeny ?
1 Brook trout
2 rainbow trout , steelhead
3 brown trout
4 Grayling
5 Mountain whitefish
6 pike
7 stripped bass
8 Redfish
9 seatrout
10 ladyfish
11 bluegill
12 green sunfish
13 channel catfish
14 freshwater drum
15 common carp
16 longnose gar
17 largemouth bass
18 Crappie
19 yellow perch