Mid- and Late- November 2020

The fish-catching has been mostly stocker rainbow trout, a few white crappies, and even a small largemouth bass or two.

This 14-incher below was squirting out some eggs.

The 16-incher below was one of the biggest trout I measured this month.

And since this is 2020, of course there would be a dead raccoon in the water.  It just goes with the dead squirrel, dead armadillo, deer bones, turtle shells, etc, that I found in the water while fishing in MO over the past few months.

OLD Fishing Pics

My family and I moved earlier this year.  During that process, I was excited to have found a couple of my old fishing picture albums I'd thought I'd lost.  I want to the throw some of the pictures up here, to help me NOT lose them again...and to remind myself I used to catch some nice fish.

😁

7.5 lbs, 27.5" Brown Trout, Lake Michigan near Kenosha, WI

Walleyes, Iowa

35lb Flathead Catfish, Des Moines River, Des Moines, Iowa

33" 18lb Buffalo, Saylorville Spillway, Des Moines River, Iowa

~20 lb Chinook (King) Salmon, Pike Creek near Kenosha, WI

~20 lb Chinook (King) Salmon, Pike Creek near Kenosha, WI

~20 lb Chinook (King) Salmon, Pike Creek near Kenosha, WI

12.5 lb Steelhead, Pike Creek near Kenosha, WI

14" or 16" Crappie (caught both same day), Sycamore, IL

27" Walleye, 7 lbs., Big Creek Spillway, Iowa

Redbreast Tilapia, Kaui, Hawaii

Northern Pike, Nungesser Lake, Ontario, Canada

Coho (Silver) Salmon, Lake Michigan, near Kenosha, Wisconsin

Peacock Bass, Kaui, Hawaii

Muskellunge, near Hayward, WI

Brook Trout, Pike Creek, near Kenosha, WI

Big Bluegills w/ cousin Nick

30" Northern Pike, West Okoboji, Iowa

18.5" Smallmouth Bass, Middle Raccoon River, Panora, Iowa

17.5" Smallmouth Bass, Middle Raccoon River, Panora, Iowa

10" Bluegill, ISU Horticulture Pond, near Ames, Iowa

Nice Walleye, ISU Horticulture Pond, near Ames, Iowa

25 lb Cobia, Atlantic Ocean, out from Sebastian Inlet, Florida (on our honeymoon)

24", 7 lb 8 oz Largemouth Bass, Iowa 

31" Muskellunge, Big Creek Lake, Iowa

Sheepshead, Florida

2020 Flyrod Fish Species List

 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:

3. Kentucky Spotted Bass*:

4. White Bass:

5. Walleye:

6. Sauger*:

7. White Crappie:

8. Bluegill:

9. Redear Sunfish:

10. Longear Sunfish*:

11. Green Sunfish:

12. Hybrid Sunfish:

 

13. Common Carp:

14. Mirror Carp (no picture; I realize is isn't a separate species from Common Carp, but they are readily identifiable as different...so I'm treating it as a separate species for this purpose):

15. Silver Carp*:

16. Grass Carp:

17. Freshwater Drum:

17. Shortnose Gar:

19. Goldeye*:

 

20. Northern Studfish*:

21. Channel Catfish:

22. Hornyhead Chub:

23. Creek Chub:

24. Striped Shiner:

25. Common Shiner:

26. Golden Shiner*:

27. Rainbow Trout:

And additional species caught in Iowa this year:

28. Black Crappie:

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):