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. This one’s a new quiz, featuring 20 questions on famous fly-fishing waters in the United States. Of course, there may be other waters with the same name elsewhere, so please choose the most famous one for fly fishers.
The last quiz was pretty easy, apparently, for there were 17 perfect scores. Congrats to all you who really know your fly names.
The randomly chosen winner of this week’s quiz will receive a super-cool, not-yet-available Helios 2 Buff. (See below) The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org) was Hayden, who just squeaked by on the quiz, but succeeded in winning a prize anyway.
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 a cool Buff.
Good luck!
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40%
35%
55%
55% declining rapidly
50%
55%
75%. My U.S. river geography is good . . . but not thattttt good. I’ll take it!
55%. need to travel more
25%
45%
55%
30% wow
50%
55%. I guess I need to fish more
Great quiz! miss only one and have fished about half the rivers named.
25%
20%
35% ouch.
35% Pitiful!
55% check your work you dumba$$
30% 🙁
40% I shouldn’t have second guessed myself on this one.
70%
95%
30%
55%
35%
50%, that was definitely much tougher than last week! Thanks Phil!
Only 30%! Will have to study more between fishing trips.
20%….
Fiddy–
Starwberry River???? Are you kidding Monahan???
Maramec Springs on the Meramec River. I’m a native Missourian and that still confuses me. 65%
35% I need to get out more I suppose.
35%
60%
95%! OK I admit I looked up a few 🙂
40 at least i knew i wasnt gonna do so well on this one
80 per cent. I’ll take it
70%
90%. Could have been much worse I’m getting good at guessing.
Ouch, only 40%.
70%, That was a toughie!
60%
25% – only one i didn’t guess at and actually knew was the Strawberry in Utah 🙁
35% +5% for one I must have fat fingered the wrong answer.
85%
Halfway good – 50%
45%
95% Now to fish them all!
50% I think we need a ruling on the Kootenai. It should be illegal for any state in the Lower 48 to name a river something that sounds so damn Alaskan. I’m giving myself a score of 60% based upon a technicality.
Uh. . .that would still only get you up to 55.
Now we’re having a math quiz too!!!
40%. This has taught me that I need to get out and travel more water.
85% – with some help 😉
85%. Very Challenging!
25% 🙁
25% wow that hurts!
Score didn’t show, but I missed a ton of them…So we will go with 15%
Only 25% for me..
40%!! BEAT MY brothers Adam B. 25% WOOOOT
95%
45 not bad being from Canada.
20%
The only one I knew was the Kennebec river. Pure luck for the rest so not much luck I guess. 🙂
25%
No bragging about my 40%.
60%
50%
30%
35%
55% lots of guessing
15% Well…..I……Well?
75% I knew I was weak on my yankee geography, but there’s more to than that, apparently.
95%
20% uff, my worst score by now, but I have never fished in the U.S!
40 percent–oof. Take me fishing, Phil. It’s gotta be a positive trajectory from down here.
Just joined the 50/50 club..
Makes me want to go out and fish instead of listening to the weather reports up and down the east coast..
65% and I second-guessed myself out of a couple.
20%! I guess I should get out more. 🙂
45%.
40%
50% loved the quiz subjects
35%… The answer is always ‘C’
55%. This was pretty hard!
35!
50%
35%, another great quiz!
70% Glad I subscribe to all those fly fishing magazines.
60%
30%, I think I need to travel more to fish.
35% Whoop! Not bad considering I had to guess on each one. Too bad there were no Tennessee rivers, those I know.
50%
35%. At least I got the one in the state I live in right, along with the one in the state I grew up in and five others.
55% I was pretty pumped on that score!
30%
65%. Had to guess at the Eastern rivers
45%
OUCH! 30%
30% didn’t do so hot on this one
45%
35% missed every one I guessed on and clicked wrong once. I have bad luck on these quizzes.
60%
60%; had to guess at some of them… need to do more traveling!
Ouch! 35%
Scored 70% this week. I sure thought I knew a few more of those rivers than I did.
You scored 50%!
FYI–
In the Los Angeles area, we also have a San Gabriel River. The West Fork is a tailwater, and the East Fork a freestone. In the early 1900s, the San Gabriel was the natal stream for a large run of steelhead of significant size. Like many other west coast rivers, it was dam(n)ed to provide water storage for the eastern side of a growing Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley. Although there are no more steelhead, there is a self-sustaining population of beautiful, albeit small, rainbows. A lovely place to fish, as long as you walk past the Bud line–the distance required to pass the Budweiser cans and boxes left by less enlightened and lazy visitors.
GS
30%, tough quiz I need to get to more rivers across the country!
60%….and I got the Little J wrong…and I have fished there.
Must be the cold weather here in the valley…has to be…
fun quiz…
50%. Actually lower if I hadn’t guessed at some.
55 and not proud of it. Had to guess on waaaaay toooo many.
85% – I always call it the Little Juanita, but that makes it sound like it’s from south of the border somewhere!
55%…. I need to get out and fish more.
35%, worst yet! I need to get out there.
50%… bleh.. Cool Buff though!
30% a new low. I need to get out more.
55% 🙁
55. What did TR get?
90% …. wow.. lots of guessing. lots of luck
50% LOL
40%! Go me!
Ouch, 6/10. Got the Western ones right mostly.
40%, what a way to start the new year,,,,,
7/20 glad i at least got my home state river – the boardman – birthplace of the adams fly – i think
80%
60%. I gotta get out more……….
95%, wish I could say I have fished them all 🙂
Lots of guessing and then the Willowmec 30%
35%. I live overseas.
35
45% I reckon it’s time for a road trip or 11.
60%
40%.
45% Not bad for never having fished any of these rivers!
90%
40%. That’s about par for the course.
Missed one. I guess the San Gabriel River in California does not count.
Exactly what I got (and got wrong). I think that should be worth 1/2 of a correct answer!
65% – By far my best effort
70% and I didn’t even look up on the internet the ones I didn’t know!
30% yikes…I need to travel more!
95% with no lookups – but a few lucky hunches that could’ve gone the other way. Fun list to try to fish.
75%
50%…
10% – a personal worst.
10% I am ashamed! I live on a trout stream!
100%
65%- You can fish a lifetime and still have lots new to learn.
65% Gotta get out more!
95% (love geography), however, I have to call Bravo Sierra on the “Kootenai” River Question. The Kootenai River in fact does run through the panhandle of Idaho (having fished it) going through the city of Bonners Ferry. Any way. Great fun.
Oscar Kilo. Give yourself another 5. I declare your score a one zero zero.
I just completed the contest and received 100%. Got the info for contest today from TRCP.
80%, going to buy a lottery ticket.