Welcome to another edition of our (not quite) 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 is our last quiz in honor of our Giant Fly Sale, which ends tonight ended yesterday. So we’ve got 20 more questions about trout-fly identification. (See some caveats below.)
On the last quiz, there were no perfect scores, after there had been eight the previous quiz. However, six people missed perfection by one question, scoring 95%: Matthew, Tom Larsen, Roger Bird, Peter D, Larry, and Stephen Fitch. (The last two scored 95% for the second quiz in a row!) Nine readers got a 90%, and the most common score was an impressive 80%.
The randomly chosen winner of this week’s quiz will receive his or her choice of an Orvis Fly Selection, featuring patterns chosen by Orvis-endorsed professional guides. The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org) was Glenn S, who scored a Gentleman’s C.
Quiz caveats: The categories of dry, nymph, wet, and streamer are meant to encompass all other similar categories. Please don’t argue, for example, “The Black Nose Dace isn’t a streamer! It’s a bucktail!” For the purposes of this quiz, if you cast a fly out and then work it like a baitfish or a leech, it’s a streamer. If a fly floats, it’s a dry. . .even if you think it’s really an emerger. Where there are two versions of a named fly, one of them is much more popular and well-known. Choose that one. Okay, have at it!
So post your score below for a chance at some great stickers.
Good luck!
70% Feeling lucky
I scored an abysmal 35%… Time to study up!
55%
70
70%
50%. should stick to saltwater I guess.
65%
75%
75%. best score in awhile
60%
45%. Meh.
25% I’m getting worse I need to figure these out!
70% Love these quizzes. And the ones matching bodies of waters and states, even though I fail miserably outside MT.
65%
85% again! Can’t seem to break the 85% ceiling on these fly quizzes!
ha, that was interesting. 50.
80%
65%
95.
40%
55%…I don’t know wets…or dries, apparently
95%
35% I guess I need to add to my fly boxes.
55%
70% , had to laugh at some of these names
50% I can go fishing now!!
75%
75 % only missed the ones I didn’t know
Haven’t taken one in a while. I got a 75
60%
50% ugh
35%. Confused many of the flies with the names of micro brews.
85% Thanks Phil that was fun!
50%
70%
80% is pretty good for me.
60%, better than normal
95%!
60
70% again
50%…a boatload of guesses.
55 percent. Warm winter meant not much time drooling over catalogs. At least, that’s how I’m explaining knowing so few of these.
a surprising 80%
40%.
45% Yuck
75%
70%
A PERFECT SCORE! I guessed on every question. Each had 4 choices. The probability was 25% on each. My score as 25%. Who can beat that?
45%. Uh-oh. Trending down.
60%
30%
55%
60
40%. I’ll break 50 one of these days
!00% April Fools!
60%
Since it’s opening day here in the Catskills, I should log off and go fish.
Hope you all have a great season!
75% You’d think this would have been easy!
60%…too many I hadn’t heard of. Time to study.
85%
55% – It’s still passing!
70%. Wet flies appear to be my nemesis.
60%
55%
65% at least I knew more than 1/2 🙂
40% too many new names added
35%, great quiz!
60%
never loaded. perhaps the fact i only get the quiz in the blog and not at NEWS?
Works fine for me!
80%
55%
100% 🙂
awesome!!!!!!!!! wow
60%
50%
35%. Tied for 3rd from last place this time. Better than last time.
At 45% just a little credit for many, many guesses.
85…not great, but not too bad either. I should’ve done better.
65%. Last four all guessed wrong!
70%
65%
You scored 75%!
40%
60%
40% … Guess I need to start using a wider variety of flies..
40%
60% I should go back to worms.
40% Learning there’s a lot to learn!
75%
45%. All guesses.
A worrysome 25%.
But all random guesses.
60
You scored 75%! Apparently I stick with my favorite flies.
45%
50%
45% Back to the books!
50%. Maybe I should try tying on something besides a Wooly Bugger!
60 percent not as good as some but not the worst.
75%……ok, not too bad
40%, amazing how often that is my score.
50%, Could be worse right guys?
45 % and lucky at that
Maybe instead of stickers or other prizes I could use a book on flies…… 30%
75% <
55%