Friday, February 25, 2022

Flyfishing Species Life-List (Updated 3/2024)

 This post is for me...as good a place as any to list and show a photo of each species of fish I've caught on fly/fly rod.  I plan to updated this post as I go along, adding more species to my list.  These are in no particular order.  I will include what my known Fly Rod Personal Best (PB) is....if I know it.  The fish pictured will be one of the fish I've caught, it may or may not be the PB fish.

1. Bluegill (PB 10.5")


2. Warmouth



3. Redspotted Sunfish

4. Dollar Sunfish


5. Bantam Sunfish

6. Saugeye

7. Freshwater Drum (PB 25.5")

8. Skipjack Herring


9. Kentucky Spotted Bass

10. Longear Sunfish

11. Sauger

12. Goldfish (PB 13.5")

13. Carmine Shiner

14. Common Shiner

15. Rock Bass (PB 8.5")

16. Pumpkinseed Sunfish (PB 9.75")

17. Goldeye

18. Koi

19. Bleeding Shiner

20. Grass Pickerel

21. Striped Shiner

22. Largescale Stoneroller (PB 8")

23. Chain Pickerel

24. Longnose Gar (47.5")


25. Brook Trout (PB 12")

26. Creek Chub (PB 11")

27. Shortnose Gar (29.5")

28. Walleye (PB 27")

29. Golden Shiner (PB 11")

30. Hybrid Striped Bass (PB 18.5")

31. Rainbow Trout (PB 16")

32. Northern Studfish

33. Hornyhead Chub

34. Silver Carp

35. White Bass (PB 16")

36. Comet Goldfish (PB 13.5")

37. Orangespotted Sunfish (PB 5")

38. King (Chinook) Salmon (PB 22 lbs)

39. Steelhead (PB 12 lbs)

40. White Crappie (PB 15")

41. Smallmouth Bass (PB 18")

42. Common Carp (PB 35", 22 lbs)

43. Brown Trout (PB 19")

44. Black Buffalo (PB 25" 7 lb)

45. Smallmouth Buffalo (PB 25.5")

46. Bigmouth Buffalo (PB 28")

47. Northern Hognose Sucker

48. Mirror Carp

49. Black Bullhead (PB 15.5")

50. Black Crappie (PB 14.5")

51. Channel Catfish (PB 31")

52. Grass Carp (PB 41", 35 lbs)
53. Redear Sunfish (PB 12")

54. Hybrid Sunfish

55. Eyetail Bowfin (PB 26.5")

56. Redfish (PB 27")

57. Oscar (PB 13")

58. Northern Pike (PB 24")

59. White Sucker

60. Golden Redhorse Sucker

61. Green Sunfish (PB 9.75")

62. Largemouth Bass (PB 21.75")

63. Meanmouth Bass (Hybrid)

64. Peacock Bass (PB 17.5")

65. Mayan Cichlid (PB 13")

66. Spotted Tilapia (PB 12")

67. Hardhead Catfish (PB 13.5")

68. Stingray (no picture taken... but me fighting it)

69. Spotted Seatrout (PB 12")

70. Ozark Sculpin (PB 5.5")

71. Knobfin Sculpin (PB 5")

72. Yellow Perch 

73. Yellow Bass

74. Yellow Bullhead


75. Gizzard Shad

76.  McCloud River Redband Trout

77. Ghost Carp


78. Longfin Carp


79. Butterfly Koi




80. Mirror Koi

81. Leather Koi








82. Full Scale Koi / Carp

83. Linear Koi/Carp

84. Flier


85. Ozark Bass

86. Blackspotted Topminnow

87. Yellowtail Snapper

88. French Grunt

89. Blue-Striped Grunt

90. Sailor's Choice

91. Houndfish

92. Bermuda Chub

93. Tomtate

94. Pigfish

95. White Grunt

96. Redbreast Sunfish


97. Florida Largemouth Bass

98. Barramundi


99. Ruddy Bowfin (PB 26")

100. Florida Gar

101. Crested Goby

102. Plecostomus (PB 17")

103. Spotted Sunfish

104. Coppernose Bluegill

105. Jaguar Guapote

106. Zebra Tilapia (PB 14")

107. African Jewelfish

108. Spotted Gar (PB 30.5")


109. Mottled Sculpin


110. Tarpon

111.  Blue Runner

112. Shadow Bass

113. Mooneye

114. Striped Bass:


115. Blue Catfish:



116. Southern Redbelly Dace:

117. Bluntnose Minnow:




4 comments:

  1. Amazing selection. Some UK freshwater species are similar to a few of the chub/shiner types and we have northern pike and zander which are like walleye. Our more colourful fish are mostly marine species.

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    1. Thanks! Yes, a number of similar species on both countries. Seems like your Northern Pike and Zander can get larger than our pike and walleyes. Do you also have those big(ger) perch and wels catfish?

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    2. Perch go to 5 or so pounds (Imperial) and wels catfish around a 100 pounds. the pike to near 50 and zander 20.

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    3. Excellent! Those would all be very fun to tangle with! :)

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