Name the species contest

Idaho Fishing Forum Idaho Fishing General
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I will tie a half a dozen flies or jigs for the first person who identifies the fish in the pictures below. They will also get their choice of a BFT hat, BFT shirt or BFT Flag.

All of the species in the pictures were caught in Eastern Idaho. The fish in pictures 10 & 11 were caught a few years ago but the rest were caught within the last 12 months. When the contest is over I will post the body of water these fish were caught.

The first 19 pictures only show 1 species in each picture. Picture 20 shows two species to identify. With 21 species, I don’t think this contest will be as easy as it first appears. Good Luck!

The rules are:
#1 You need a registered user name to win.

#2 All species in the pictures need to be identified in a single post before the end of May.

#3 Before you post your answer you must have made at least one other post on BFT Idaho within the last year under your registered username. It doesn’t matter if the post was made only 5 minutes before you post your answer.

#4 If you don’t identify all the species correctly the first try you can try again but you may only make one post per day.

#5 You don’t have to name the exact strain of fish but you can’t post a general answer like “trout” or “bass”. An answer like “rainbow trout” or “cutthroat trout” will be sufficient. If you guess that a species is “Yellowstone cutthroat” and it is a “Bear Lake cutthroat” I will still count your answer correct because it is a cutthroat trout.
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#19

#20 Name both Species**

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Gee, I need to broaden my fishing experiences…never have fished for the warm water variety so I’m out on this one. I really like those browns though.

3

Ok, some of these are really hard to tell because you can’t see all of their features.

  1. rainbow trout-maybe a hybrid can’t see the top of the head
  2. rainbow
  3. hybrid
  4. small mouth bass
  5. yellowstone cutt
  6. mud cat
  7. walleye
  8. fine spotted cut
  9. tiger trout
  10. Henry’s lake Cutt
  11. Largemouth Bass
  12. Brown Trout
  13. Bluegill
  14. Bear Lake Cutt
  15. Channel Cat
  16. Fine Spotted Cutt
  17. Yellow Perch
  18. Bluegill
  19. Brown Trout
  20. Rainbow and a Cutt

How did I do?

Thanks
Windriver

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I would say you did very good. It isn’t easy trying to identify fish by just a picture especially when the picture is a little blurry. Remember all of the species in the pictures were caught in Eastern Idaho.
The attached picture shows a slightly better look at the head of the fish in picture #1

you missed 3, 9, 13, & 20

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1 Hybrid cutbow from Henry’s?
2- Rainbow
3- Chunky Rainbow
4-Smallmouth Bass
5- Cutthroat
6- Bullhead Catfish aka mudcat
7- Walleye
8- Cutthroat
9- Brown Trout
10-Cuthroat…notice edit.
11- LMB
12- Brown Trout
13- Green eared(?) sunfish but definately a sunfish.(mouth gives it away)
14- Cutthroat
15- Channel Catfish
16- Rainbow
17- Yellow Perch
18- Bluegill
19- Brown Trout
20- Rainbow
21- Brown

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I made a mistake in my last post. Windriver missed one of the other species. I may have made another mistake but it looks like you have all but one of them correct. I either took all the pictures or was there and I might not be able to get them all correct. Very impressive, considering how difficult this contest is.

Someone should be able to win this contest before the end of the week.

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Ok I will try to fix a few of these.

#3 Rainbow-Maybe from American Falls? Although the squished dots might indicate some hybridization.

#9 Brown

#13 Pumpkin seed.

#20 Rainbow

#21 Brown

Thanks
Windriver

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No one has identified the fish in Picture #10 correctly yet.

Catchandrelease,

I didn’t notice the edit until today. Just start a new post so I won’t miss it.

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  1. bow
  2. bow
  3. bow
  4. smb
  5. cutt
  6. mud cat
  7. eye
  8. cutt
  9. brown
  10. bow
  11. lmb
  12. brown
  13. green sunfish
  14. cutt
  15. channel cat
  16. cutt
  17. perch
  18. crappie
  19. brown
  20. bow/brown
10

Is #10 a ChinoocK? It looks like a small king salmon?
Windriver

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1 cutthroat rainbow hybrid
2- Rainbow trout
3- Rainbow trout
4-Smallmouth Bass
5- Cutthroat trout
6- Bullhead Catfish
7- Walleye
8- Cutthroat trout
9- Brown Trout
10-cutthroat rainbow hybrid
11- Largemouth Bass
12- Brown Trout
13- Green eared sunfish
14- Cutthroat trout
15- Channel Catfish
16- Rainbow trout
17- Yellow Perch
18- Bluegill
19- Brown Trout
20- Rainbow and Brown trout

I must admit I stole some answers for a few of the warmwater species.

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We have a winner. Flyguy66, send me a PM so I can get you your prizes.

Here is a list of where the fish were caught.

1- Cutbow (aka Hybrid), Henry’s Lake
2- Rainbow, (likely one of the Triploid troutlodge kamloops the F&G planted) Chesterfield
3- Rainbow, (likely one of the Triploid troutlodge kamloops the F&G planted) Chesterfield
4- Smallmouth, Bear River
5- Fine Spotted Cutthroat, Snake River
6- Bullhead, McTucker Ponds
7- Walleye, Onieda
8- Fine Spotted Cutthroat, Ririe
9- Brown Trout, Snake River
10- Cutbow (aka Hybrid), Island Park Reservoir
This was a difficult one, I posted a picture of this same fish about 3 years ago.
11- Largemouth Bass, Lamont
12- Brown Trout, Snake River
13- Green Sunfish, McTucker Ponds
14- Fine Spotted Cutthroat, Snake River
15- Channel Catfish, McTucker Ponds
16- Brown Trout, Snake River
17- Yellow Perch, Ririe
18- Bluegill, McTucker Ponds
19- Brown Trout, Portneuf River
20- Brown & Rainbow, Snake River