Welcome to another edition of our trivia challenge, where we test your knowledge of all things fly fishing and where you might learn a thing or two about this sport we love. Here’s a classic quiz, which asks you to choose the best imitation of a given trout food.
Warning: For each question, there is a best answer; just because you might catch a fish on another fly doesn’t mean it’s the right answer.
The scores on the last quiz dropped a bit from the previous, with just three perfect scores. Kudos to Louis Coleman (no, not that Louis Coleman) and Charlie, with an extra-special medal of honor for winston, who has now scored 100% for three weeks in a row! (I’m pretty sure that’s never been done before; can he go for four?) There were two 95% scores, a single 90%, and the most common score was a lowly 40%.
The randomly chosen winner of this week’s quiz will receive a year’s subscription to Catch Magazine. Our last winner (as determined by random.org) was Shawn, who didn’t exactly ace the test.
So, take this week’s quiz, and no matter how well or poorly you do, post your score in the comments below to be eligible to win!
Good luck!
Do you know what this baby imitates?
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90% Best yet!
100%
You scored 100%! Finally.
100% thank you very much.
100%… it helped growing up in Maine…
80%
40%
7 of 10
100% !!! Proving once again I know flies and I don’t know crap about where rivers are.
100% Yes sir! 🙂
100% Finally!
10% …I have so much to learn.
Bob Reece
90%
100%
70% I’m shocked! Best score in a very long time.
100% Been awhile
90%!!! Wooohoo!
100%. Harder please.
90%
90% ! one of my best scores
80%
70% Phil that was a fun quiz thanks!
90%
Yes!
100% this time
Point of order – this is not intended to be an open book test is it?
40%
100%
70%
70% but I’ll take it. Fun quiz!
90% so close!
90%
80%
100%. Great quiz. Thanks.
20% ouch
80%. Couple of bad choices near the end.
70%
First 100%
90%. Still can’t get em all
50%
100% First time WOO HOO
90% We do not get to fish a salmon fly hatch very often here in the East. LOL!
30%
70% don’t think that’s bad considering I’ve only been fly fishing and tying for about 3yrs. 🙂
60% Sliding backwards! Guess I’ll go fishing!! 🙂
50%
That was fun, Phil!! Only 60% though.
60%, a personal best!
70% best yet.
60% I’ll take it.
80%
90 % miss read #9 or I would have had my most elusive 100%. fun time had by all
90%!
90% Missed that last one!
80%
90% – but I thee protest! A Klinkhammer? A Klinkhammer? That’s a Klunkhammer of an answer. I klinkhammer is when you don’t know what hatching and there are no bugs!
Makeover!
90%
90% this week.
70, not bad
90% Best ever.
80% my best score ever… by a lot. Helps being a tyer!
Guess I know my flies…100%
70% finally a decent score
90% 5 times. Something might be wrong, no matter what I put for question 10 it always reverts to the first option. So when I put prince nymph in it looks as if I put the first answer. Just wanted to point that out there. Otherwise I would of gotten 100.
100%! Woo hoo!
60%
100% you New Englanders love a Muddler Minnow
80%
Woo hoo! 100% on this one! 🙂
90%
100% at last
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60%
100%
90% phew!
70%
100% looks like you threw us a bone!
50% Half perfect.
8/10. Living in Idaho, I miss the saltwater questions.
70%
Wow, so many 100%s, congrats to those people. I got 80%. It was a very good quiz and I learned some new things.
100%
Now if only I actually had the discipline to tie I my line what the fish were actually eating.
Ahhh. 90%. I was feeling so good about myself I didn’t read all of the answers to the last question.
Lot of smarty pants on this one! Me=50% (Tardo!)
80%
80%! Better at matching the hatch than geography!
80%
95% Best one yet.
60%, really should have done better on this one though!
90%!
50
80%. Not too bad.
100%… first timer…beginner’s luck !!
100%
50%…… Don’t know rivers or flies apparently, but I’ll let myself off being a non-American saltwater guy.
80% , better than last week
100
Ho hum 80
90%
100% first time
80
90%
90% not bad!
100%
100% and it feels SO good!
30% oh well
scored 50% still learning but catching fish anyway!!
50%
60%
50% first five was easy
90%, ties my best ever but still no 100!
40%. I don’t know my flies, obviously!
20%… Can anyone say HOMEWORK
90% Woo!
80%
hmm, you guys have some small parachute adams patterns….
60% need to study more!
90 %. OK.
80%
90% I am happy with that!
90% best ever!
60%
40%!
100%, first time evah! yessah!
80%. Misread one of the two I missed.
70%
Not so much. 50%
90%…missed the last one. 🙂
100%- thanks for the layup
70%
90%
100% !!
!00%. Phew. Needed a good one.
Chuck
90….not bad
90%
90%. I’ll take it!
100% woo ho !! NOW I’m ready for the 1st annual Driftless 1 fly next week !!!!
90%. A pupa is not an emerger, it’s s pupa. Sour grapes, I know.
60%
90%; GARTSIDE GURGLER FOOLED THE OLD FISHING GUIDE
You scored 100%!
You scored 70%
90%
90%, need a couple weeks like this one!
You scored 90%! Now, if only I could catch 90% of the fish I target.
100%!!!! Oh yeah!
I’m not *that* Winston, but I got 100 percent.
100% ! Love doing the quizzes, thanks!
50%
100% I am still yet to catch anything on a muddler minnow…
%100
90%
90% dang
40% slacking!
20% I’m learning. Slowly.
100% First time ever!
60% best one in awhile
70% Love the classic flies!
60%
80%.
Yes! 100%