Welcome to another edition of our weekly trivia challenge, in which we test your knowledge of all things fly fishing and where you might learn a thing or two about this sport we love. This week, we’ve got 10 new questions about flies, authors, fish species, rivers, and more. I had a strange case of the “NOTs” while making this one, so make sure you read each question carefully.
The last quiz produced some great scores, including five 100s. Hearty Huzzah!s for Peter D., shoo-fly, Steve M, Eric Grams, and Roger. There were another four 90% scores, and the most common score dropped to 60%.
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive a copy of Steve Woit’s impressive Fly Fishing Treasures: The World of Fly Fishers and Collecting. The book offers a colorful review of the world of fly fishers and collecting, including 30 interviews with leading collectors, experts, museum and club curators, tackle manufacturers, auctioneers and traders and dealers of antique, vintage and collectible fly fishing tackle.
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by the Google random number generator)–who will receive download “Live The Stream: The Story of Joe Humphreys”–is Roger, whose perfect score is further rewarded with the prize!
So post your score below (or below the post on our Facebook page!) for a chance to win a great video.
Good luck!
50%, glass half empty
60%. Personal best.
30 Arggh!
70%
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Which of these game-fish is NOT a hybrid?
Wiper
Tiger muskie
✓Spotted bass
Splake
Who first tied the Black Ghost?
✓Herb Welch
Carrie Stephens
Joe Brooks
Fly Rod Crosbie
True or false: Brook trout are native to Georgia.
✓True
False
Who said, “If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church.”?
Roderick Haig-Brown
Norman Maclean
Harry Middleton
✓Tom Brokaw
Which famous angling book begins with the assertion, “Despite rumors to the contrary, the paramount objective is: to catch fish”?
✓”Curtis Creek Manifesto” by Sheridan Anderson
“Trout Bum” by John Gierach
“The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing” by Tom Rosenbauer
“Trout” by Ray Bergman
Which of these countries does NOT have native brown trout?
Morocco
Croatia
✓Mongolia
Portugal
On what river would you find the stone temple built in honor of Izaak Walton?
The River Itchen
The River Avon
✓The River Dove
The River Test
In rod-building, what is the “scrim”?
✓A lightweight fabric of fiberglass or graphite that forms a lining under the principal fibers and which aids in working with the material when it is rolled around a mandrel.
The fabric created by impregnating the material with resin. )
The matrix that holds the carbon fibers together.
A fixed metal shroud over either the top or the bottom of the reel-seat cylinder into which one end of the reel seat is placed.
Which of these is NOT a real sunfish species?
Redear sunfish
Orangespotted sunfish
green sunfish
✓Yellow sunfish
What kind of fly is the Juju Baetis?
Dry fly
✓Nymph
Hairwing streamer
Wet fly
i looked up half of them
I’ve been flyfishing for about 55 years. I’ve never heard of Sheridan Anderson. Have read Haig-Brown but didn’t remember his quote. Who cares what Tom Brokaw said??? I almost Never fish anything baetis , cuz which can see them???
Mongolia? SPOTTED SUNSISH?
I just want the ice to go away and to see a March brown hovering over the brook.
60%, and only with a few LUCKY guesses.
Failed on 50% of the questions… GREAT result : )
80%, again.
70%
Ouch. 20%. Maybe I should have looked them up too.
60%
Thought I did well, but 50%
40% and that was all luck
50% – Done better, done worse.
40.
70%
slipped this time
60%
60%.
90%. The sunfish question got me.
20 not my best
80%!
I’ll take 60% today.
30% my worst.
30%
50%
70% could be worse
30%
30% worst score since high school
60%. A couple of really tough ones for me.
20%
Worst ever!
more like an English lit test
30% record low
60%
50% for the week.
How in the heck did brown trout get to the African continent and into Morocco and be considered a native?
As for the other four misses this week, I just can not guess very good.
60%.
I mixed up Juju and scrim. Again…
40%
Not very good 40%
70%
50% 250% better them last time. 🙁
70%
60%…not good.
Sweet, scored 70%
10% 🙁
60% with a lot of guess
50% – could be worse, I guess.
40% – Even missed the religion/church question. My Sunday School teacher was a worm dunker.
50% and I’ll admit it should have been less. I guessed a few correctly.
A strong 40%
Halfway there…50%
Only 40% this time.
40%
100%
70
50% I’m so ashamed
50%, better than last week
Flunked!
20%
Guessed wrong n many. Tough one!
80% who knew Monoco had trout!
60%, not horrible
40%
50%
Another 40%
100% We’re on a roll!
50%
60% not bad
20% A new low!
50%
50%. Ho hum.
50%
50%
30.
60%
40% and that was all luck
30%, mostly guesses
20%
30% yikes
40% just throwing darts
20%, ouch!
50% and I guessed on all but one.
70%
40% worst ever
40%, whew
20% – what!!??
You scored 80%!
Nailed a few W.A.G’s
70% is nothing to write home about.
You scored 50%!
50% winter blues
30%. Just brutal. even my my next guesses were wrong!
50%
30
40%
30% YIKES
50%…like clockwork!
50% i’ll do better next time
40%
Thst was a tough quiz
30%