Had a great year for species caught on flies. Typically I'd been getting 19-25 species each year. This year I got 32 (or 33, based on how I'm recording them). I had about 1/2 year in Iowa, then moved to Missouri. In Missouri alone, I caught 27 species!
There was some overlap of species between Iowa and Missouri.... so I will start with Missouri species (and show an example), then add Iowa-caught species that weren't on the Missouri list. I will put an asterisk(*) next to species that I caught on flies for the very first time this year...there were 9 of them!!
MISSOURI
1. Largemouth Bass:
2. Smallmouth Bass:
7. White Crappie:
13. Common Carp:
15. Silver Carp*:
17. Shortnose Gar:
29. Orangespotted Sunfish*:
30. Pumpkinseed Sunfish:
31. Black Bullhead:
32. Goldfish:
33. Comet Goldfish* (again, not technically a separate species from regular goldfish, but very identifiable as different...so I'm counting it as separate):
16. Grass Carp:
17. Freshwater Drum:
19. Goldeye*:
20. Northern Studfish*:
21. Channel Catfish:
22. Hornyhead Chub:
23. Creek Chub:
24. Striped Shiner:
25. Common Shiner:
26. Golden Shiner*:
And additional species caught in Iowa this year:
27. Rainbow Trout:
28. Black Crappie:
Wonderful array of fishes! The studfish is, well, a stud.
ReplyDeleteThanks! You catch lots of cool fish as well. :)
DeleteI had never heard of a studfish before....until about a week or so before I caught some. Good thing someone posted pictures, or I wouldn't have known what it was that I'd caught! I was told they are the largest member of the Killifish family. Pretty cool.