How many species?

Peter Charles wrote in
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chub

There have been two or three outings where I entertained myself catching
chub on dries when little else was going down.

I took a chub on a size 4 salmon hook once at Sandy Creek. That was
something to see. If I remember, it was on my own concoction that I call a
"freddie mercury"

Hook: Salmon fly, size 4-6
tail: purple schlappen
tag: medium oval tinsel
body: Purple ultra chenille
rib: fine oval tinsel
thorax: Purple lite brite
wing: flourescent pink calf tail (reverse tied)
Hackle: Purple chickabou

I don't remember why I called it a "freddie Mercury", but it seems to fish
well in everything from clear to deeply stained water.

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Scott
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rw wrote:
Peter Collins' thread on states and provinces got me to thinking about
how many species of fish (loosely speaking) I've caught.

On the fly:

Fly:

Rainbow Trout
Great Lakes Steelhead
King Salmon
Silver Salmon
Brown Trout
Brook Trout
Cutthroat (as stocked in Arkansas )
LM Bass
SM Bass
Redfish
Various Perches, Bluegill, and Crappie
Catfish
Walleye
Redeye Bass
Striped Bass
Muskie (ate the Rainbow I was attempting to land in NY state but
started out as a #16 BWO)
Pike
Various Suckers and *coarse fish*


Other Tackle
Blue Marlin
White Marlin
Sailfish
Tuna
Bonita
Hammerhead Shark
Tiger Shark
Sand Shark
King Mackeral
Spotted Seatrout
White Seatrout
Long Nosed Gar
Snook
Tarpon
Dolphin (the fish, not the mammal)
Blue Fish
Grouper
Red Snapper
and other smallish SW fish.

"rw" wrote in message
...
Peter Collins' thread on states and provinces got me to thinking about how
many species of fish (loosely speaking) I've caught....

Rainbow, brown, brook and cutthroat trout. Do hybrids such as the cutbow
count?
Rocky mountain whitefish
Bluegills, pumpkinseed and various other unidentified allies.
Rock Bass
Smallmouth bass
Largemouth bass
Northern Pike
Muskie
Black and white crappy
White bass
Walleye pike.....and probably sauger.....not at all sure I could tell them
apart.
Yellow perch
Coho salmon
Chinook salmon
Channel cat
Bullhead
Bowfin
Various "suckers"
Sundry, "minnows".....dace and other unidentified tiny fish
Sculpins of one sort or another
Myriad "chubs"

All of the above except the bowfin on flies......most of them also with bait
and/or hardware.

I've also gotten grouper, red snapper, snook and others that I never
identified or have forgotten with a spear gun.

Also, many thousands of smelt with nets.

Wolfgang

Also, many thousands of smelt with nets.

Wolfgang

If you didn't leave the nets in the sun so long, they wouldn't have smelt.
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"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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Also, many thousands of smelt with nets.

Wolfgang

If you didn't leave the nets in the sun so long, they wouldn't have smelt.

Doesn't matter. In the years when I pursued them.....mostly the early 60s
through mid 70s.....the stench of millions of tons of rotting alewives
pretty much drowned out everything else.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote ...


Also, many thousands of smelt with nets.

Doesn't matter. In the years when I pursued them.....mostly the early 60s
through mid 70s.....the stench of millions of tons of rotting alewives
pretty much drowned out everything else.

Wolfgang

Many a fine memory of same. Sitting on the 'horseshoe' at Montrose harbor
with Dad at 3 AM. The horrible stench of the alewives was easily drowned out
by the stories Dad told about smelting in his youth.

Thanks for the flashback...

Dan

Forgot chub and vendace, doubtless a few others as well.

TL
MC

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"Wolfgang" wrote ...


Also, many thousands of smelt with nets.

Doesn't matter. In the years when I pursued them.....mostly the early
60s through mid 70s.....the stench of millions of tons of rotting
alewives pretty much drowned out everything else.

Wolfgang

Many a fine memory of same. Sitting on the 'horseshoe' at Montrose harbor
with Dad at 3 AM. The horrible stench of the alewives was easily drowned
out by the stories Dad told about smelting in his youth.

Must be a hell of a story that would drown out alewives. A Dad worth
keeping, I'd say.

Thanks for the flashback...

De nada.......flashbacks are free.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang wrote:

Do hybrids such as the cutbow
count?

Well, I didn't include palomino rainbow trout or the nearly dead chum
salmon I foul hooked in Alaska, but everyone has to follow their own
consciences. :-)

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OK, I don't usually respond to "polls", but this one got me
thinking. The following have been caught by various means, from bait to
lures to flies.

Largemouth bass
Spotted bass
Smallmouth bass
Guadalupe bass
Striped bass
White bass
Carp (bait only)
various suckers (bait only)
Gar
Pike
Gaspergou (freshwater drum) (bait only)
Bowfin (bait only)
Channel catfish
Blue catfish (bait only)
Yellow catfish (bait only)
Bluegill
Green sunfish
Readear sunfish
Black and white crappie
Red drum
Hardheads (sal****er catfish) (bait only)
Speckled trout (sal****er "trout")
Black drum (bait only)
Rainbow trout
Brown trout
Brook trout