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| Adirman | November 13th, 2012, 4:36 pm | |
 Posts: 505 | West Branch: Wow! Thats quite a list!! | |
| Jmd123 | November 13th, 2012, 7:50 pm | |
 Posts: 2611 | Matt's been at this fly-flinging game longer than most of us so I'm not surprised...a bit envious but hey, I'm younger so I got time to catch up, right? I'm sure Matt's list didn't come easy, well maybe the sunfishies... ;oD Jonathon | |
| No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
| Gutcutter | November 13th, 2012, 8:39 pm | |
 Posts: 470 | Fresh Water: Atlantic Salmon Landlocked Brook Trout Native and Stocked Brown Trout Wild and Stocked Brown Trout Great Lakes Tiger Trout Stocked (accidental) Rainbow Trout Native, Wild and Stocked Steelhead Great Lakes Cutthroat Trout Native and Wild King/Chinook Salmon Native King/Chinook Salmon Great Lakes Dog/Chum Salmon Native Red/Sockeye Salmon Native Pink/Humpback Salmon Native Silver/Coho Salmon Native Silver/Coho Salmon Great Lakes Northern Pike Muskellunge Walleye (accidental and on purpose) Largemouth Bass Smallmouth Bass Hybrid Striped Bass White Bass (accidental) Carp (accidental and on purpose) Freshwater Drum (accidental) Fallfish (accidental) All sorts of Panfish that I never bothered to learn the names of Pickerel (accidental) Sea Gull (the fly was tipped with a cheesepuff) on purpose ☺ Channel Catfish (accidental) Bowfin (accidental) Bull Frog (accidental and hooked in the mouth) Bats of various species (accidental and snagged) African Tigerfish Salt Water: Bonefish Tarpon Permit Flats Permit Offshore Snook Surf Snook Lagoons (accidental and on purpose) Jack Crevalle and other Jacks that I never learned the names of Cobia (accidental) All sorts of Snappers that I never learned the names of Lemon Shark Barracuda Manatee - kidding-just seeing if anybody is paying attention ☺ Ladyfish (accidental and on purpose) Weakfish/Seatrout (accidental and on purpose) Redfish Several Groupers that I never learned the names of Striped Bass/Rockfish Bluefish Dolphin Little Tuny/False Albacore Croakers and other surf fish that I never learned the names of Flounder To Do: Atlantic Salmon anywhere in The Maritime Providences Brook Trout in the Canadian Sub-Arctic Arctic Char in Nunavut Providence Steelhead in British Columbia Arctic Grayling Anywhere in Alaska or Northern Canada Monster Pike in the Northwest Territories No Desire to do: Any Billfish Any Large Tuna Any Shark not on the Flats Peacock Bass or anything in the Amazon Dorado Taimen Inconnu/Sheefish | |
| All men who fish may in turn be divided into two parts: those who fish for trout and those who don't. Trout fishermen are a race apart: they are a dedicated crew- indolent, improvident, and quietly mad. -Robert Traver, Trout Madness | ||
| Entoman | November 13th, 2012, 9:48 pm | |
 Posts: 2604 | Since we're including non-fish species, do fishing guides count? How about trico snagged cows? | |
| "It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
| Oldredbarn | November 13th, 2012, 11:07 pm | |
 Posts: 2608 | Sea Gull (the fly was tipped with a cheesepuff) on purpose ☺ How many Yuenglings does it take before someone thinks this is a good idea? :) Spence | |
| "Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
| TNEAL | November 14th, 2012, 1:34 pm | |
| GRAYLING. MICHIGAN Posts: 278 | Non-fish: bats, nighthawks, ducks, one muskrat | |
| Oldredbarn | November 15th, 2012, 4:21 pm | |
Posts: 2608 | Non-fish: bats, nighthawks, ducks, one muskrat Tim...You forgot the Tag Alders! :) Over a lifetime of lost flies there I think I have also lost miles of leader material. I was floating a couple summers back down below Wakeley somewhere in the bigger water. It was dark and we were in the middle of the river and as I was casting I heard and felt a thunk! At first I thought I'd hooked Jimmy because we were no where near the shore and the trees...I turned around hoping Jim was ok only to see him laughing..."What happened?!" He said, "You whacked a bat with your rod. Is your rod ok? You hit him hard." Once I was standing in the river in the dark just up from Lower TU and a bat tried to land on my rod...I think he thought it was a tree limb or something. Spence Tim...I was in Grayling in September for the Manistee clean up and I took a friend over to Goodale's for some coffee etc before we headed over to the Old Au Sable..I was getting out of my car and I heard someone banging from inside on the window and it was your old buddy JR. He told me he's heading down to Holt for the FFF Fly Tying Expo on Dec 1st...It would be nice if you were tagging along. :) | |
| "Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
| Crepuscular | November 16th, 2012, 8:10 pm | |
 Posts: 923 | Freshwater Brook trout, wild,stocked Brown trout, wild,stocked Rainbow trout, wild, stocked Tiger trout Weird stupid genetically modified yellow "golden rainbow" trout ( thats what the pa fish commission calls them.) We always called them palominos as a kid. I wish they would all go away... Cutthroat trout, don't know the strain King salmon (great lakes) Steelhead Coho salmon Largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, rock bass Hybrid striped bass Freshwater striped bass Channel catfish (on a dry fly, and streamer) Carp Walleye (on a popper and streamers) Bluegill Pumpkinseed Long eared sunfish Green sunfish Chain pickerel Northern pike Muskellunge Hybrid muskellunge Peacock bass African ciclid (not sure of the species) All of the chubs in the eastern US Dace Bullfrog (on purpose, they will eat a pooper like crazy, and they taste good) Saltwater: Striped bass Bluefish Flounder Speckled trout Squeteague Triggerfish Mangrove snapper Red snapper Other snappers that I do not know the names of Several groupers Spot Croakers Pinfish Sea robins Cow nosed ray Southern stingray Scup Blue shark Lemon shark Bonnet head shark Hammerhead shark Mako shark Spinner shark Bull shark Mahi Mahi Yellowfin tuna Blackfin tuna Bluefin tuna Skipjack tuna Little tunny Amberjack Bar jack Jack Crevalle Blue runner Rainbow runner Red drum Black drum King mackerel Spanish mackerel Hickory shad American shad Lizardfish Ladyfish Common Snook (one of my most favorite fish to fish for) Fat Snook Swordspine Snook Barracuda Spadefish Tarpon Bonefish Horse eyed Jack Almaco jack Permit Pompano Lookdown Pufferfish Non fish: Several gulls Big brown bat Little brown bat Pelican Terns Mallard duck ( hooked but not landed, maybe that doesn't count) Loggerhead turtle( hooked but not landed) Snapping turtle (landed that one!) Cormorant Sea urchin Several species of crabs Oysters Mussels Clams Oak Alder Willow Hemlock Laurel Rhododendron Bull thistle Sumac Several grass species Maple Box elder Poplar Several species of algae Water hyacinth Water lilly Pickerel weed Water cress Spanish moss Mangrove | |
| Entoman | November 16th, 2012, 10:42 pm | |
Posts: 2604 | Once fought a large seal to a draw. Well, almost - in truth I only ended up with a third of the large yellowtail. Actually got him up to the boat after several runs and a long sound before his thrashing at the surface "severed" our relationship...:) Oh, and I have also caught a 40 ft. gray whale on a fly, but that's another story. | |
| "It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
| Rckymtn_fsh | December 14th, 2012, 10:18 am | |
 Posts: 12 | Fun to see everyones catch and wish list!! Freshwater- Rainbow Brown Brookie Cutbow Cutthroat Black Crappie Bluegill Largemouth bass Sucker Carp Saltwater- Blue Fin Trevally Bonefish Barracuda Lizard Fish Want List- Northern Pike Golden Trout Tiger Trout Walleye | |
| "These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get close enough to present it." -- Dick Blalock | ||
| Kschaefer3 | December 14th, 2012, 11:57 am | |
 Posts: 376 | Oh, and I have also caught a 40 ft. gray whale on a fly, but that's another story.A story I would love to hear! Let me guess, caught on a size 26 midge? You put the 20/20 club to shame :) | |
| Oldredbarn | December 14th, 2012, 12:39 pm | |
Posts: 2608 | Bullfrog (on purpose, they will eat a pooper like crazy, and they taste good) Eric...The other night "Anatomy of a Murder" was on and I watched it for the million(th) time...For those that may not know this Robert Traver aka John Voelker wrote this and a movie was done with Jimmy Stewart and others...In it he has a fly stuck in a law book like a bookmark and ends up giving it to the judge to angle for bullfrogs with. Kurt, I'm with Kyle...When are we going to hear the whale story? Now we will all believe (wink, wink) that you just couldn't help yourself and it "rose" to your fly and you weren't out snagging after a few too many whiskeys...:) Spence | |
| "Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
| Falsifly | December 14th, 2012, 3:34 pm | |
 Posts: 661 | Yeah, come on Kurt I want to read that "Whale Tale" too. | |
| Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
| Entoman | December 14th, 2012, 3:36 pm | |
Posts: 2604 | Well, there wasn't any whiskey (or perhaps more appropriately tequila) involved, but a few irrelevant Coronas were consumed, especially after! I was on the Sea of Cortez off the coast near the town of Loreto when it happened. Fishing for Yellowtail in February is delightful when the fish are up, but boring the rest of the time unless you're one of the die-hards. The day was windless warm and the water was as smooth as a sheet of glass - a water skier's dream (if it weren't for the hammerheads). It was also one of those boring periods when a "boil" of feeding fish at the surface was nowhere to be found. This meant deep dredging with large shrimp patterns. The deal was to cast as far as you could and let it sink as deep as it needed to go. This usually meant that the last half of the retrieve was completed with the rod pointing straight down in the water. Such was the case in this particular instance. I was absentmindedly staring down into the clear blue green working my retrieve as we drifted over a barnacle covered reef. I turned to ask the guide why we were drifting in so close when I noticed we were still hundreds of yards from land. Looking back at the water my head started to swim with disorientation because we were moving over the reef far faster than the boat felt to be moving. The reef grew longer and longer under the boat before the truth began to register. As I watched in amazement, the "reef" finally passed under and with a stroke of a giant fluke only a few feet from both boat and surface, caused an up-welling that made me stumble to the point that I dropped my rod and had to grab the gunwale with both hands to steady myself. About this time my Fin-Nor started to bounce around on the bottom of the boat like a kernel of corn popping. I forgot that I still had a cast out there! The rest was a blur of frenetic activity, but I do remember somehow getting my hands on the rod. She (assumed because of the size) was moving slow enough that by the time I got my wits about me and pointed the rod at her with the reel clamped down, the 16 ft. Panga was already re-oriented in line and slowly pulling behind her. After a little while that seemed like an eternity, she finally pulled free... Then the guide went crazy! He had a big boat rod with a mounted level wind full of hundreds of yards of 50 lb.(?) line. On the end dangled a big spoon-like lure with a giant treble attached. With whoops and Spanish war cries he began a series of frantic casts in the hope of a snag. Why he did this, I haven't a clue other than perhaps he thought it would be fun to get towed around awhile. When I explained to him in my broken (and very excited) Spanish that she might not take it too kindly if hooked in a tender spot and decide to pay us back in a very unfriendly manner, he just shrugged his shoulders... Anyway, that's the whale story. | |
| "It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
| Falsifly | December 14th, 2012, 5:02 pm | |
Posts: 661 | Its always disappointing when we lose that big fish. And I understand how, at times of increased excitement, we sometimes forget to do the right thing, so Im sure Kurt that you learned a valuable lesson. Always set the hook. | |
| Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
| Rckymtn_fsh | December 14th, 2012, 5:05 pm | |
Posts: 12 | .... Always set the hook. +1 Love the story!!! | |
| "These brook trout will strike any fly you present, provided you don't get close enough to present it." -- Dick Blalock | ||
| Entoman | December 14th, 2012, 9:01 pm | |
Posts: 2604 | Always set the hook. Ha! Very good, Allan. Yes... And have a change of pants nearby!:) Thanks, Matt. It was exciting, to say the least. | |
| "It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
| GldstrmSam | December 15th, 2012, 11:07 pm | |
 Posts: 212 | That gets me thinking, Kurt. What is a whales diet...? Plankton? Well, let me see what size hook would that be... :) Thanks for the story. Sam | |
| There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus | ||
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