2024 has been a GREAT year of flyfishing for me. I didn't fish much more than usual....typically just 1 day/week. Also a small a handful of multiple-day trips.
I fished some new-to-me smaller waters (creeks) for micros, which was my first real foray into flyfishing for tiny stuff.
I also started off the year with a list of 7 species I'd hoped to catch for the first time on the fly rod. They were: Musky, Alligator Gar, Northern Snakehead, Rio Grande Cichlid, Northern Sunfish, Striped Bass, and Blue Catfish. With help from my buddy Hamilton for 5 of the 7, I caught all 7 of those!
I ended up catching 87 species on fly for the year, which was my most in a year ever, even though that wasn't a goal of mine.
I also caught enough of the 4 species I track to boost my lifetime-on-fly number of each of them to:
Grass Carp: 277
Bowfin: 203
Koi: 475
Goldfish: 368
Some of my favorite fish of the year:
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| Muskellunge |
I liked the markings on the one below:
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| Muskellunge |
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| Warmouth |
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| Leather Koi |
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| Koi |
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| Leather Koi |
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| Mirror Koi |
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| Koi / Linear Ghost Carp |
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| Grass Carp |
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| Grass Carp |
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| Mirror Butterfly Koi |
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| Mirror Koi |
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| Pumpkinseed Sunfish |
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| Northern Sunfish |
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| Orangethroat Darter |
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| Ozark Logperch |
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| Alligator Gar |
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| Black Drum |
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| Rio Grande Perch |
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| Gafftopsail Catfish |
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| Goldeye |
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| Western Mosquitofish |
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| Bleeding Shiner |
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| Western Dollar Sunfish |
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| Redspotted Sunfish |
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| Shadow Bass |
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| Spotted Gar |
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| Longear Sunfish |
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| Ladyfish |
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| Northern Studfish |
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| Rock Bass |
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| Flier |
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| Grass Pickerel |
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| Redspotted Sunfish |
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| Northern Snakehead |
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| Bighead Carp |
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| White Bass |
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| Gizzard Shad |
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| Walleye |
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| Orangespotted Sunfish |
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| Eyetail Bowfin |
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| Blue Catfish |
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| Striped Bass |
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| Leather Koi |
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