11-12-2010, 07:01 PM
Favorite fish to catch: Probably smallmouth, but largemouth are close behind and a lot more common around here.
Hardest to catch: Large channel cats or walleye. I've caught some, but not consistently. I guess I just need to put more time into those species as I seldom target them specifically.
Easiest fish to catch: Probably bluegill or small largemouth
Hardest fighting: Bluefish
Most fish in a day: I think it was around 240 and then I got tired of catching them and did something else
I actually made a list a while back. Some of them are subspecies, hybrids or variations of a species, but I included them anyway. I had also added whether I caught them on flies, lures, or bait.
1. Rainbow Trout-FLB
2. Bonneville Cutthroat-FLB
3. Colorado River Cutthroat-F
4. Snake River Cutthroat-F
5. Yellowstone Cutthroat-FLB
6. Cuttbow Trout-F
7. Brown Trout-FLB
8. Brook Trout-FLB
9. Tiger Trout-F
10. Albino Trout-F
11. Lake Trout-F
12. Golden Trout-F
13. Mountain Whitefish-F
14. Common/Mirror Carp-FLB
15. Comet Goldfish-F
16. Channel Catfish-B
17. Black Bullhead Catfish-LB
18. Brown Bullhead Catfish-LB
19. Golden Shiner-FB
20. Red Fin Shiner-FB
21. Red Shiner-F
22. Utah Chub-F
23. White Sucker-B
24. Northern Hogsucker-B
25. Creek Chub-FLB
26. Horny Head Chub-B
27. Largemouth Bass-FLB
28. Smallmouth Bass-FLB
29. White Bass-FL
30. Striped Bass-L
31. White Perch-LB
32. Rock Bass-FLB
33. Pumpkinseed Sunfish-FLB
34. Bluegill Sunfish-FLB
35. Redbreasted Sunfish-FLB
36. Warmouth Sunfish-B
37. Green Sunfish-FLB
39. Green/Bluegill Hybrid-F
40. Black Crappie-FLB
41. Chain Pickerel-FLB
42. Grass Pickerel-FLB
43. Northern Pike-LB
44. Tiger Muskie-L
45. Yellow Perch-FLB
46. Walleye-FL
47. Bluefish-LB
48. Sea Robin-B
49. Atlantic Cod-B
50. Winter Flounder-B
51. Splake-F
If I'm fishing for trout I overall fish creeks and small rivers the most. I probably fish for bass more than anything lately, so reservoirs are also a favorite.
As for baits, that really varies a lot. For stream trout I mostly fish a dry/dropper set up with something like a Turk's Tarantula on top, and a tungsten head dropper of some sort underneath. Trout in lakes, leech imitations. Bass: It varies greatly depending on conditions. I really like jerkbaits, lipless cranks, deep diving cranks, weightless plastics when they're up in cover, shakey heads and dropshots when they're deep and non aggressive. For pure fun though, nothing beats throwing poppers on the fly rod.
Rod action once again depends. I mostly use a 3/4wt for my stream fishing, 6wt for stillwater trout and smallmouth. 8wt for larger bass/musky. I really have a soft spot for throwing small hard baits for bass, so I use ultralight and light action spinning rods a lot. I use a medium light for a lot of shallower mid size hard baits as well as grubs, tubes, dropshots and shakey heads. My mediums get used for deep diving crankbaits, larger hardbaits, jigs, texas rigged plastics, fishing up in cover.
Reels, I have a baitcaster, but it seems like it's a lot harder to use out of a float tube, so I mostly use spinning and of course fly reels. I'm especially fond of Pflueger spinning reels.
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Hardest to catch: Large channel cats or walleye. I've caught some, but not consistently. I guess I just need to put more time into those species as I seldom target them specifically.
Easiest fish to catch: Probably bluegill or small largemouth
Hardest fighting: Bluefish
Most fish in a day: I think it was around 240 and then I got tired of catching them and did something else
I actually made a list a while back. Some of them are subspecies, hybrids or variations of a species, but I included them anyway. I had also added whether I caught them on flies, lures, or bait.
1. Rainbow Trout-FLB
2. Bonneville Cutthroat-FLB
3. Colorado River Cutthroat-F
4. Snake River Cutthroat-F
5. Yellowstone Cutthroat-FLB
6. Cuttbow Trout-F
7. Brown Trout-FLB
8. Brook Trout-FLB
9. Tiger Trout-F
10. Albino Trout-F
11. Lake Trout-F
12. Golden Trout-F
13. Mountain Whitefish-F
14. Common/Mirror Carp-FLB
15. Comet Goldfish-F
16. Channel Catfish-B
17. Black Bullhead Catfish-LB
18. Brown Bullhead Catfish-LB
19. Golden Shiner-FB
20. Red Fin Shiner-FB
21. Red Shiner-F
22. Utah Chub-F
23. White Sucker-B
24. Northern Hogsucker-B
25. Creek Chub-FLB
26. Horny Head Chub-B
27. Largemouth Bass-FLB
28. Smallmouth Bass-FLB
29. White Bass-FL
30. Striped Bass-L
31. White Perch-LB
32. Rock Bass-FLB
33. Pumpkinseed Sunfish-FLB
34. Bluegill Sunfish-FLB
35. Redbreasted Sunfish-FLB
36. Warmouth Sunfish-B
37. Green Sunfish-FLB
39. Green/Bluegill Hybrid-F
40. Black Crappie-FLB
41. Chain Pickerel-FLB
42. Grass Pickerel-FLB
43. Northern Pike-LB
44. Tiger Muskie-L
45. Yellow Perch-FLB
46. Walleye-FL
47. Bluefish-LB
48. Sea Robin-B
49. Atlantic Cod-B
50. Winter Flounder-B
51. Splake-F
If I'm fishing for trout I overall fish creeks and small rivers the most. I probably fish for bass more than anything lately, so reservoirs are also a favorite.
As for baits, that really varies a lot. For stream trout I mostly fish a dry/dropper set up with something like a Turk's Tarantula on top, and a tungsten head dropper of some sort underneath. Trout in lakes, leech imitations. Bass: It varies greatly depending on conditions. I really like jerkbaits, lipless cranks, deep diving cranks, weightless plastics when they're up in cover, shakey heads and dropshots when they're deep and non aggressive. For pure fun though, nothing beats throwing poppers on the fly rod.
Rod action once again depends. I mostly use a 3/4wt for my stream fishing, 6wt for stillwater trout and smallmouth. 8wt for larger bass/musky. I really have a soft spot for throwing small hard baits for bass, so I use ultralight and light action spinning rods a lot. I use a medium light for a lot of shallower mid size hard baits as well as grubs, tubes, dropshots and shakey heads. My mediums get used for deep diving crankbaits, larger hardbaits, jigs, texas rigged plastics, fishing up in cover.
Reels, I have a baitcaster, but it seems like it's a lot harder to use out of a float tube, so I mostly use spinning and of course fly reels. I'm especially fond of Pflueger spinning reels.
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