A few guys I work and fish with have a little challenge to see who can catch the most species of fish in Utah in a 365 day year. The purpose is to get you out more, and fish for things you might usually not target. It is so easy to get caught up with your favorite lure, lake,stream or spot and not expand your fishing. I find that is the case for me because I don’t like to get skunked. Growing up in Idaho and Utah I fish for mostly Cold water fish and never got after the Warm water fish until this challenge.
So my question for you all is how many species have you caught this year (in Utah or otherwise)?
Here is my list since 1 Jan.
Rainbow Trout
Yellow Perch
Splake Trout
Tiger Trout
Bear Lake/Bonneville Cutthroat
Kokanee Salmon
Lake Trout
Green Sunfish
Channel Catfish
Common Carp
Brown Trout
Black Crappie
Smallmouth Bass
Largemouth Bass
white bass
large mouth bass
crappie
green sunfish
bluegill
channel cat
mud cat
bugle mouth brown
rainbow trout
cutthroat trout
johnny bass
bocacio
convict bass
tomato bass
ling cod
starry bass
tijuana bass (not sure their real name)
skittles (not sure their real name)
california scorpion fish (rattlesnake)
mottled bass ( I believe that is what they are called)
Splake
white fish
perch
brown trout
I guess I have caught more than I thought I have only gone on 5 fishing trips this year
Man you guys have me beat by a long ways. I’m almost embarassed to even post my measly results, I must be a bad fisherman.LOL Heres is my list (Mix of Wyo & Utah)
Lake Trout (Mack)
Brookie (My favorite)
Brown Trout
Mountain Whitefish
Rainbow
Colorado Cutt
Bonneville Cutt
Smallmouth Bass
You guys really piss me off (actually just envious), i havn’t been out fishing since the first week of Jan, tied up with school,work, family and chores, my list include 3 fish, and i am not going to get into species specifics, but lets just say that the halibut i got at Albertsons put up one hell of a fight. But you mark my words, my Game face is on now, I just opened up a king size can of whoop A**, schools out for the summer, plenty of vacation time to burn, sending the kids to military reform school for the summer, and the Wife ran off with her Latin Lover once she heard i would be fishing all this summer, i am ready to Fish, come January 1 2008,my list of fish caught will be so long, that the Big Fish Web site’s is going to crash.I am ready to Rock (you guys buying into any of this yet) [;)]
Well as you probally figured out by now that most of the above text is not true, i gaurantee you one thing though, i am long over due in seeing that old rod tip twich, and feeling that adrinelene rush, when the rod's bent over and the drag's a sqeeling. Looking forward to Fishing this Summer. Wish you all Luck and be safe out there.
p.s Come to think of it I don’t think he was Latin. maybe French or Italian.(lol) [:)]
Rainbow
Cutthroat
Perch
LMB
SMB
Crappie
Bluegill
Green Sunfish
White Bass
Channel Cat
Mud Cat
Walleye
Striper
Carp
I think that’s it, I’m probably missing something really obvious… Check out this Crappie, caught two of these at Powell last weekend.
yea I am not sure if I got all the species either. That is definitely one very nice thing about fishing in the ocean. you never know what you are going to catch.
jed
Rainbow Trout
Tiger Trout
Cutthroat (couple different species)
Crapie
White Bass
Channel Cat
Large Mouth Bass
Blue Gill
Perch
Carp
Sucker (whatever that is in Bear Lake)
(actually just envious), i havn’t been out fishing since the first week of Jan, tied up with school,work, family and chores, my list include 3 fish, and i am not going to get into species specifics, but lets just say that the halibut i got at Albertsons put up one hell of a fight. But you mark my words, my Game face is on now, I just opened up a king size can of whoop A**, schools out for the summer, plenty of vacation time to burn, sending the kids to military reform school for the summer, and the Wife ran off with her Latin Lover once she heard i would be fishing all this summer, i am ready to Fish, come January 1 2008,my list of fish caught will be so long, that the Big Fish Web site’s is going to crash.I am ready to Rock (you guys buying into any of this yet) [;)]
