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. This week, we’ve got 10 all-new questions about native trout, world records, famous authors, and lots more!.
The last quiz was a toughie, and just one people scored 100%. All hail Dave Ting! Only slightly less impressive was Dan G, who missed just a single question, and the most common score held steady at 50%.
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 a copy of Andrew Weiner’s Down by the River: A Family Fly Fishing Story, is rez, whose score was exceedingly common.
So post your score below (or below the post on our Facebook page!) for a chance to win a great book.
Good luck!
40% or: roughly 8X how happy I am to be at work today.
Amazing. I think I couldn’t break 40% if Phil sent me the answers ahead of time – which he wouldn’t.
90%
80% My best yet!
70%. Better than my recent average.
Stop the presses! 100% !! Woo Hoo!!!
50
Not too bad
70%
70%
60% My new record!
50%ouch
60%
70%
70%
Best Ever!
70%
50%
80%
Well I got them all right but didn’t get credit for the crane fly. There was no highlighted correct answer
90%, good enough
60%.
Oh man… that was baaad!
50%
I scored a 20%. A personal worst!
Glad the book is randomly chosen!
70%. Missed a couple ones that I thought I knew…
80%
60%
Yay 60 my best.
Missed the one I guessed on. 90%
60% I be happy! Time to go use a “Fat Albert”!
90%. So close, so close…
60%
I guessed I would score 60% before checking my score.
That seems to be the only correct response I felt confident with in this quiz.
90% Stocked trout in Alaska???
20%. My worst ever.
60%
70% You’d have to be an Angel to catch a Mike Trout!
70% better than my recent scores but almost all were very lucky guesses. 🙁
50%
100%
50%. Better than I thought
30%. Bad, really bad.
80%
60% WooooHooo
80% best yet!
60%. Started very weak but gained traction later.
60%. Thanks Phil for another quiz. I always look forward to them.
60%
60%. It is tough.
Over thought the “History of Trout” question, and I have the book! Still, 90% makes me pretty happy!
80%, wow best in quite some time!
50%
Extremely average 70%
80%
60%….ouch
60% I guess that’s not to bad for…..guessing on some questions!
70% — better then the last few scores
50%
best score in awhile 90%
60%, tough one.
70%
Amazingly, only 1 wrong.
40%
50%
40%, great quiz!
90%
60% oh well, can’t know everything
80%…getting back in track.
70%
60%
80%
100! Had to guess on some (like the Mike Trout one)! Have a Merry Christmas!
60%
50%
50%
50% – just a suggestion but can we have a few less questions on US geography and rivers; some of us aren’t from the States and there’s more to fly fishing than knowing what species are US natives or the geography of US rivers etc.
80%
not to good today 40%
50%
80%
best in a long while
50%
40%
60%
50% – again
I’ll take 60%. Happy Holidays!
60%.
70%
60%
solid 7/10
60%
40% I hope Santa brings me better scores to this coming year
60%… slight improvement from last time!
80%
Best ever! Merry Christmas to me!
70%…. I will take it!
70%, I’ll take it.
70
60% – Better than some worse than others
80%
70% during finals week / not gonna save me
40%
50%
60% right , high score 🙂
90%! Best Ever. Missed the weird trout…
50% my norm ouch!
30% Yuck
80%
30% again
70%
70%
50% correct and 50 % wrong.
A mean 50%.
30. Worst ever
70%
40%
10 out of 10 and only one lucky guess.
40%
As usual, another 40%
50%
100% thanks to Wikipedia and a few WAGs. But, wait a minute, isn’t the Mike Trout’s Latin name “Salmo Baseballis”?
Would be helpful if after completing the Quiz a respondent could just click a link to come directly to this answer-entry page.
50% yikes
60
80%
A whopping 30%
100%, but only because of two WAGs that turned out to be right.
50%
100% nice one with Mike Trout lol
90% – personal best.
70% one of my best ever.