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 got 10 new questions that will see how much you know about fly names. (For each question, choose the best answer.)
The last quiz caused some readers to struggle, and there were just two readers scoring a perfect 100%—congrats to J Bryan Mines and Frank—and five 90%s.
The randomly chosen winner of this week’s quiz will receive a signed copy of Tom’s book The Orvis Guide to Small Stream Fly Fishing. This is the book you need for those times when there is no specific hatch on. Last week’s book winner (as determined by random.org) was Dale Spaller, whose turned a solid C into a free book.
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 Tom’s book with his inspirational words on the title page.
Good luck!
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90%! Question 5 was my undoing. Great quiz.
Yuck, I got an 70%
I scored 80%, surprised myself!
50%, Need to study harder next time!
60%… way too much second guessing… always stick with your gut feeling!
100% woohoo!
Another solid 30%. LoL I suppose being “New” to Fly Fishing, I had to guess at most of the names.
90%, missed a salt water fly question but that’s OK. I live 1200 miles from the nearest ocean.
Is this like X country, low score wins? 20%
Borski’s Bonefish ________ almost got me. Lucky guess.
Oops forgot to put I got 100%
60%! Humbled a bit, thought I had more fly knowledge than I do!
80%
60% for me
You scored 40%!
100%
I got 100% even through I was not sure on 2 of them
90% missed the Bonefish one, but hey I’m not much of salt guy
50%
100%. Yay me!
90%
50%
70% !!!!
Scored a 90% the borski fly got me
50% New High Score!
Why bother updating I seem to never leave 60%!
60%
100% lucky again!
90%! Best I’ve ever done!
50% Dang!
60.
Drats!!!!! 50% Time to do my homework….
80%…. finally a passing score on one of these
50%
40%
90% !!!!
50%
60%… better than usual!
70%, up from 30% last week. What a relief.
50%
100%! That was easy!
60%
You scored 70%! Hey, at least I’m consistent.
70% for me.
I only got a 60%. I really need the book to help me learn more!
40%
Only got 60% on this, but feel pretty good about that anyway since I don’t do any saltwater or salmon fishing…
You scored 70%!
80%. Not bad!
90% not bad.
80 % personal best I think
90% The silver ___ got me.
90%
60%. Junk
Nice. My first 100 %. Glad that you included the CDC&Elk. The best dry fly in my flybox. Tre browntrout here in southern Sweden love it…
60%
Woo Hoo!! 90%
90%
90 % moving up in the world
30% YUCK! I need that book, obviously.
60%
60%. Phil, I look for these before turning in every Thursday evening. Always fun and with something to learn. Thanks.
First time I’ve scored 100% BOOM!
60% When guessing, alliteration didn’t always work! 🙂
70%
70%…most aren’t in my box, but have been planning on getting them in soon
ha 60%, those are not small stream trout flies…well not the majority, you need pictures to go with these.
50%
70%
80% with a few lucky guesses
You scored 100% I liked this quiz!
60% not bad for me
70% – Way better than others past. I guess I know the flies….just can’t fish em!
100%
70% not bad passing
40%
90 per cent. Borski got met too!
90%…missed the salt fly
hhmm.40%
Yes! 100%…I must say that was an easy one! Or, I’ve been knee deep in flies too long!.
80% should have been 90.
80% – not bad. Thunder what?? And that freakin’ Bonefish deal got me.
70% Lesson learned…don’t take quiz on phonef… mismarked 2 of them .
70%…. ok.
40%
60%
40%. I guess I need to fish for other species aside from trouts.
70%
70% Yay…
You scored 50%!
did pretty well got an 8/10
80 percent, and I only missed the ones I didn’t know! Much better than missing questions that I was sure I’d get right.
50%. It was those salmon and warm water flies that did me under.
60 percent
40% again.
I scored a 80%!
30%. Worst one yet.
60%
70%
100%
100
70% Starting to improve. Thanks again, Phil!
a pitiful 40%
Got a 90% pretty happy with that score.
100%. Maybe too easy.
90% personal best…I’m buying myself a slurpee
40%.
60%. Man…
100%. Going to be a long winter.
Didn’t know a single one, but got 3 by pure luck.
70% OK
My first 100%. Probably also my last.
A couple lucky guesses and way too much time spent reading catalogs yielded 100% today!
7 out of 10. Thanks for the fun stuff you guys do!
60% Jeez I think I’ll study next time.
80%. Mediocre.
90% Debated with myself and lost.
My first 100%.
Maybe I know more *about* flies than actually fishing them. 🙂
50%- two weeks strong.
70%. Needed an easy one after last week.
40%! I’ll take that as a win any day when it comes to guessing any of the hundreds of flies out there.
100% – even a blind steelhead finds a polar shrimp once in a while!
80%. I passed. back to the bench.
10 for 10 – 100%. Pretty easy this week.
Fun but not shocked I didn’t know most of those flys. 50%
30%. About my average.
100! Yeah an easy one. Too bad you couldn’t do this with pictures.
90%.
30% Bleh…
60% ok!!
60%
70.
Solidly unaware of warmwarter patterns.
You scored 70%! not bad, missed some of the ones I don’t use, like bonefish slider. We don’t have too many of those in PA 🙂
70%, much better than last week,,,,,,,,,,
80%. Not bad.
Surprised myself with 70%!
80%
Finally a 100%!
Not bad!…an 80% this time….commin up!
90%–should ‘a’ gone with my gut on the Polar…
thank you, fly tyer magazine…:-)
70% without cheating! Not going to lie though, I thought about cheating…
Finally a quiz where I actually knew some answers (60%)!
Easy one this week…100%
80%, and if I scored that there ought to be plenty of perfect scores.
60% Things are looking up! Also, I could use some encouraging words. haha!
80%
You scored 100%!
Whoa! I was not expecting that. I totally guessed on at least 4 of them.
80% not bad.
Oh my…30% 🙁
Dangit. 60%
70
40 percent
100% about time!
60% got better this time
60%
60%
A very lucky 100%. Thanks Phil!
30% two weeks in a row, ouch!!
70%