
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. For this first quiz of 2019, we’ve got 10 brand-new questions about famous waters, fish species, angling authors, and lots more!
The last quiz was pretty difficult, I guess, but one person managed a perfect score. Kudos to Steve M! A respectable nine people missed just a single question–most didn’t know that Maine smallmouth are not natives–and the most common score held steady at 60%.

The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive Tom Rosenbauer’s great book The Orvis Guide to Hatch Strategies: Successful Fly Fishing for Trout Without Always Matching the Hatch, from Universe Publishing. Instead of focusing on insect identification, in this book Tom stresses learning how to approach trout, how to find where they feed, and how to present the fly so it is accepted as natural food.
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org), and recipient of Tom’s book, is Robert D. Teeden, who invoked the help of Santa and ended up with the prize. Coincidence? I’ll leave that for you to judge.
So post your score below (or below the post on our Facebook page!) for a chance to win a great book.
Good luck!
30%
:/
30%
Tricky
40 – again 🙁
40%
New Year’s hangover…
40%
50%
30%
No link
Only 50%
40%
70%
70%
50%
A couple of wild guesses! I scored 90%.
60%
90%. Dang, so close…..
30%.
40%
30%… ew
70% lots of educated guesses!
70. Perfection continues to be illusive.
30% started right where I left off last year.
80%. Long time since a decent score.
Well I’m starting off the New year’s over my waders
50%
10%
50%
80%
40%
ugh 40%
90%
70%
80%!
90%
40
90%
30%
I’ll take 50%. Happy New Year!
50%
90 per cent. One lucky guess
80% Highest ever!! Happy New Year!!!!
What ever 40%
30%
50% – that ain’t lookin’ too bad compared to others…
40%
10%……..new year / new low 🙁
60%, awful
60%…New Year doesn’t mean better score
20% – a personal worst
70%
New low 30%
You scored 50%! Back to my recent usual score.
50%
80% best score ever
Back to 50%
Ouch 50%
90%. Tarpon got me. But then, I don’t saltwater fish, so I’m ok.
Lordy Lordy 40%
80%
40%
60%
40%
60%
80% for the 2nd week in a row.
20%
50%
60/10
60%
Oh yeah, guessed my may to a meager 40%
Please do make a European version just for gigs and giggles 🙂
Oh yeah, guessed my may to a meager 40%
Please do make a European version just for kicks and giggles 🙂
40% yikes
40% Bah, humbug!!
40%
70%, maybe someday I’ll get to 100
70%, maybe someday I’ll get to 100
40% not very good
30!!
20% Nowhere to go but up!
80%. some luck involved
90%
40%
40%
90% with some lucky guesses on Rivers – that was fun!
Kasey @ FoxTrickFlies.com
Love the dynamite picture at the top too – makes fishing a blast!
40%. Keep the geography questions coming.
60%
60%
30%. Back to my normal scores.
You scored 60%!
80%…a few guesses worked out
40%
70 %
50%
New Year and a personal best score of 70%
60% Uggh!
100%
The Ernie q was tricky because I believe he did have a phd. And I don’t think there is a “South Fork river” but there is the South Fork of the Snake River. Tarpon species was a guess.
30%. Three good guesses
30%
Ugh. 50%
30%
70%
80%
20%. Take that!
10%. All time worst.
Another 60% in the holster
40% keep lowering my average!
60% this time. Tough!!
60%. At least a better start to 2019 than I ended 2018. If I keep progressing…
50%
60% tough one
A few guesses got me a 90%
50% the first time, 90% second time around. Western waters and I don’t see eye to eye apparently.
50%
80% better than usual.
30%
20%. Worst in a long time!
70% not bad!
30%
The river below Palisades dam is the South Fork of the Snake River, known locally as the South Fork.
80%
50
40
70 percent
40% not my best
50%
30%. Here I come, 2019.
30%
70%
60%
I apparently was wrong. Don’t tell my wife. 60%
50% I’ve done worse!
50… not great but better than some of my other scores.
Tough!
30%. These are always tough for me…
50%
50%…sorry for the late reply