I know there is some friendly competition on here about who will catch what first so I thought I would get it started with what we have caught in the past plus name the next one you want to add to the list. My list will be short since I haven’t been doing this very long.
Largemouth Bass
Bream
Brown trout
Rainbow trout
Brook trout
Creek Chub
Snook
Jack
Mangrove Snapper
Sheepshead
Spotted Sea Trout
Redfish
Puffer
Rainbow Trout
Brown Trout
Brook Trout
Cutthroat Trout
Kokanee Salmon (Landlocked Sockeye)
Sucker
Rock Bass
Whitefish (aka Rocky Mountain Bonefish)
Redfish
Spotted Seatrout
Flounder
Lizardfish
Snook
Tarpon
Mangrove Snapper
Nassau Grouper (babies)
Permit (baby)
Jack Crevalle
Bar Jack
Bonefish
Triggerfish
Barracuda
Blue Crab
Bat
Forgot a couple:
Needlefish
Ladyfish
Pompano
Next on my List:
Tarpon (again and bigger, biggest was 60 pounds so far)
Shark (any species, especially here, have tried Bonnetheads several times with only one or two follows)
Most memorable Cobia fo sho with the dolphin in a close second!
Spanish
Red
Speck
Spadefish
Brown (Stocker and Wild)
Rainbow (Stocker and Wild)
Brookie (Stocker and Wild)
Red Eyed Bass
Bream
LM Bass
Striper
fresh water trout/char:
'bow
brown
brook
'throat
golden
palomino
cutbow
bull
dolly
steelhead
kokanee
landlock salmon (someday want a grown atlantic, just lack funds)
sockeye
humpy
bass, large and smallmoth and redeye aka bunghole
bream including crappie and warmouth
channel and flathead cats
yellow perch
white perch
hybrid
carp difficult
koi
pike, no musky yet (many follows)
pickerel
walleye
whitefish
squawfish (now known as northern pikeminnow)
stripper
blues
albie
blackfin
mahi
king, cero and spaniard
jacks almaco, rudder, crevalle, amber, yellow, lookdown, pomp.
red
black
shephead
trout grey and speckled
ladyfish
flounder
stingray snagged
puffer (destroy perfect bonefish flies)
boxfish
'cuda
neddlefish and houndfish (chesapeake white marlin)
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bowfin
tarpon
bone
shad
pinfish
croaker
snook
spadefish
hooked 5 cobe, landed none! a delicate subject
bonnethead and lemon
small snappers and grown red snapp
gag (tiny)
mallard
tern
gull
pelican
gannet
bullfrog very gullible
And what’s with all the by-catches like bats and frogs, this is about fish. If you are going to lay in birds and amphibians, you need to tell the story behind the catch.
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
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carp - common
smallmouth
largemouth
bluegill
flyer
redear
warmouth
pickerel
chub
hybrid striper
striper
redfish
sea trout
brown trout
rainbow trout
ray
white crappie
black crappie
white perch
yellow perch
redeye bass
spot/redeye cross
spotted bass
blue cat
channel cat
white amur
koi
Fresh:
1’st trout ever, native brown, on a self tied fly
browns
bow’s
every sunfish known to man
largemouth bass
horny head’s
creek chub
Salt:
Ballyhoo
Blue Crab
Comorant------ Long Story
Dont even get me started about redfish. Live right on the marsh while going to college, So im on the salt 9 months of the year, Started OTF in january, been probably 2-3 times a week ever since, have yet to have any luck, and when im not fishin, Im tying… Wish that S.T.A.F.F. had a Cherry Grove Beach chapter… I would run for pres. haha
grassfisher cherry grove is loaded with pompano take you a sand flea fly out there mid risin tide early mornin wade knee deep and cast parallel to the beach, you’ll get em they as fun as any red
Rainbow Trout
Brown Trout
Brook Trout
Cutbow Trout
Horny Head
Largemouth Bass
Smallmouth Bass
Creek Chub
Warmouth
Every type of Bream/sunfish
Pickerel
Catfish
Crappie
Tarpon
Grey Trout
Speckled Trout
Cuda
Flounder
Bluefish
Spanish Mackerel
Mangrove Snapper
Striped Bass
Ballyhoo
Ladyfish
Lizardfish
Sea Robin
Crevalle Jack
I know I’m forgetting some others.
Wanted:
Permit
Red (fuming i haven’t done this yet)
Bonefish
Amberjack
Shark
Snook
Most memorable Cobia fo sho with the dolphin in a close second!
Spanish
Red
Speck
Spadefish
Brown (Stocker and Wild)
Rainbow (Stocker and Wild)
Brookie (Stocker and Wild)
Red Eyed Bass
Bream
LM Bass
Striper
Almost forgot, Shad
Tarpon
Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
spade fish
amberjack
red fish
ribbon fish
rainbow trout
crappie
brown trout
speckled trout
Black tip Shark
Dolphin
bream
suckers
bonefish
false albacore
snapper (many varieties)
spots
croaker
blue runner
shad
trigger fish
barracuda
jack fish
striper
Spanish
hag fish
I think I missed some
“Fishing is alot like sex…when its good,it’s really good, and when its bad, its still pretty good.”