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 is a doozy, featuring 20 all-new questions about well-known fly fishing rivers.
Warning: For each question, there is a best answer; just because there is another river with the same name somewhere else doesn’t mean it’s the correct answer.
The scores on the last quiz were a big improvement over previous weeks, with six perfect scores. Congrats to Steve B, Ryan Maas, Kurt Jackson, Bill W, Steve Root, and especially to Steve Van Vleet, who did it two weeks in a row! The number of 90% scores tripled, to 18. The most common score was 70%. Nice work, y’all.
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 Spenny, who came so close, scoring 90%.
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 where this river is?
Photo courtesy Forest Service Northern Region via Wikimedia Commons
No, I don’t know where that river is, but I do want to fish it! Beautiful.
65% today
45%
25 % pitiful
90%
10%
80% Wow, I guessed at half. You hear about all these rivers, but to place them in tough.
Too many rivers, too little time! I’d love to fish them, but sadly it pasted my time!
45%
Ouch. 30%. Hopefully I don’t do as poorly on my exams this week.
45%, really thought my geography was better than that.
80%. If I hadn’t second guessed myself on a couple…
20% Apparently I only know my local waters.
75%. But it should have been 80%. There is more than one Fall River.
Read the post again, fausto. We are looking for the BEST answer.
15% 🙁
50% I’m proud to say I’ve fished the rivers listed that I knew!
90% luck
20% : /
90%
55% seams to be my number two quizzes in a row.
50%!! I’m surprised I got 10 right!
50 % and feel darn lucky
50% need to get out more
45%. So the Ausable in Michigan is spelled differently? Au Sable, maybe?
Correct! Tricky question, for sure.
90%!!!!! I guessed on a few but knew a bunch of them!
90% and I knew better on both of those mistakes. Dang it
40%…. Hot shot on the east, pitiful ignorance on the west.
95%
35% Today. I haven’t even heard of most of those rivers.
35%
25%. I need to fish more rivers. *queue losing horn*
60
95%, Fall River got me.
95%. Fall River is in Mass. The Fall River is in Cali. Cheeky monkey
Fall River, MA is a city, not a river. The river there is the Taunton.
“The “falling” river that the name Fall River refers to is the Quequechan River (pronounced “quick-a-shan” by locals) which flows through the city, dropping steeply into the bay.”
45% with heavy guessing.
ouch ! 35%
35%
I only scored 10%. One quick note. The AuSable river is in NY not the Ausable. I know I live there and it is my home water. I guess I will have to travel more to learn the rest of the rivers. Great quiz. Thanks.
Ahem. Not according to the NY DEC: https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/31902.html
Au Sable – Michigan
Ausable – NY
40% and very surprised
80%. Interesting geography test.
65%
65%. I really need to get out more
70% – just like in school..
40% And Massachusetts does have a Fall River… just not the one you meant.
The “falling” river that the name Fall River refers to is the Quequechan River (pronounced “quick-a-shan” by locals) which flows through the city, dropping steeply into the bay.
55% Thankfully I knew my local ones!
75%
35%, rough.
55%
70%
85%.
20%.
a chill 35% that one
25%…new to the sport and look forward to learning about these rivers. The Davidson is my favorite so far and is about an hour from my home.
35%. Just like college!
50% not nearly as good as last time. I don’t think I got any thing outside the east coast.
40%
70% but I made two careless errors. Sorry Phil, but despite my granite state pride I am going to have to side with the other folks on Fall River, MA. I thought it was a trick question because you didn’t refer to it as “The Fall River”.
Thanks for putting these together. I alwayslook forward to them.
But there is no Fall River in Fall River, MA!
35%!! Absolutely lousy!
Yikes! 30%!
Just like in HS scored a consistent 50%. Where is my National Geographic atlas?
60% Happy opening day of trout season on March 1 here in Missouri!
30%…mostly guessing…
20% about what I expected. I have never heard of most of these rivers.
15%, oops! My excuse will be that I only moved to the states a bit over a year ago!
15% between the great minds of a dad and his 6 year old daughter.
85%…I lucked out with some major W.A.G.’s… I didn’t know many of those. The river in the pic looks like the Lochsa in Idaho.
50% I’ve had better scores
50%. WIth some luck even! Not too good.
95 %. . Actually a fairly easy quiz, especially when you read lots of articles written by Phil Monahan and others who are in the industry.
35%, great quiz!
40%. Ouch
15%
I thought that probability suggests I should get 25% with guessing.
50% Back to geography 101!?! Either that or I need to start reading more fly fishing magazines! :-))
Only 50%. The Ausable got me and I’ve fished the one in NY. Great quiz this week Phil.
50% yuk
35%
20%
65%, Never heard of a lot of them. MA does have a Falls River.
40%
40% Got the ones in my state & region right! Tellico & Davidson. Knew Ausable. All others were guesses ha ha!
30%…ouch. Tough guessing today.
95%, me highest score ever. Thanks Phil!
30%, sucks but too many western rivers for this yankee!
55% And I was only sure of maybe four answers. The rest were best guess.
Back to 80%. Good concept for quiz.
50%. First question was the easiest and only got a few right when I completely guessed.
95%, I put the Ausable River in Michigan, didn’t pick up on the spelling difference.
55% – Booooooo on me!
45% … better go fishing and study more
30%
100%, Hot Doggie. The River looks like the Gallatin in Montana
100% :>
Tom 95%.
one quarter of one hundred; not so good
50% but super fun!
35%, yikes!
90%
Would be great to make these rivers and creeks a fishing tour!
30%
Yikes… 45%. Well, lols like I have some map reading to do
25 ouch
45%. Really should have been 50. I’ve fished the Brazos and just clicked to wrong box. No excuses for the other 10 I missed.
70%
The Fall River vs. Fall River is like helping your Uncle Jack off a…..well, never mind.
Thanks for the fun quiz!!!
19/20 – For some reason I thought the Animas was in NM
20 % – A lot of guessing
35%
60%
50%
65% I need to get out more.
Great Quiz!
40% that was tough.
A lowly 40% – need to get out more
40%!
tricky tricky with the Fall River question… there totally is a Fall River, MA 😉
Yes, but there is no actual Fall River in the city of Fall River. . . .
True! a hasty decision to answer with the city. Truth is, I didn’t know there was a Fall River river… sounds like a pretty cool spot though! Thanks for the challenge Phil!
50%. Need to study more,,,,,,,,,,
75% is better than expected, but I missed the Ausable, thinking it was the Au Sable. Duh. And I’ve fished both of them! Doh!
75%. Surprised myself!
70%! Hope to fish them all.
40% E gads, don’t tell the grand kids!
35% geography wizard!
50% Proud to see my hometown Mossy Creek mentioned!
20% – Shameful!
GUYS!!!!! #17……. Trout Unlimited was founded on the banks of the Ausable River in MICHIGAN !!!!!!!!!
No, sir, that’s the Au Sable River.
oops I forgot to mention my score (I was so upset about #17 :-), 70%
65% this week.
25%. That sucks.
35%… when in doubt pick :c:
55 percent. See my picture in Wikipedia, under “Chain Firmly Yanked.” Great quiz, though! Thanks again!
I scored 30%
65%
70%
40%. I really need to fish more territories. I did well for the New England and Midwest rivers, but the southern/southeast and west rivers took me to school.
70%
85%,……missed AuSable…my Michigan “home water”
40%
30%…Including Ausable (which is how Francis Betters spelled it…nuff said)
You scored 70%!
60!
40% guess I need to venture out some
35% .. much worse than last quiz lol
60%. So many rivers to fish.
35% all guesses except for a couple.do you know where the elbow river is?