Welcome to the latest 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 a classic quiz featuring twenty (20!) questions about fly patterns.
The last quiz was apparently difficult, although there were two perfect scores, doubling the previous week’s total. Golf claps for Bradw and Stephen Fitch. Just five people scored 90%, a precipitous drop-off from the previous twelve. The most common score also dropped, to 50%, and the most missed question revealed that just 22% of you knew that the Kvichak River flows out of Lake Iliamna.
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive an Eastern Trout Spring Selection, featuring eight time-tested dry flies and nymphs. (Trust me: they’ll work anywhere trout swim.)
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org), and recipient of this great video was Matthew Arledge, who will not be bragging about his score–but he gets the prize anyway.
So post your score below for a chance to win a video that will help you become a better nymph fisherman.
Good luck!
80%
70%
70% not horrible
70%, I think he threw us an easier pitch…
I guessed or somewhat knowledgeably guessed 45% correct out of a selection 100% of which I have never fished. And incorrectly guessed flymph yet again!
75% this time!
80% easier than usual
80 but a leadwing coachman is a dry too … So 90
55%; on a roll.
65% but missed two that I knew
100% Fly pattern quizzes are always my favorite because I tie so much. As always, a fun quiz. 😀
75%!
55%. Should’ve gone with my gut on a couple.
65%
60%
55% with a lot of forehead slapping after reading the answers.
70%
35%
75%
85%, if you belive a greenie weenie is not a wet; its how you fish it :/
70%. Good guesses.
55%… those are some random names
60%
80%
40% – only somewhat better than guessing.
70% even C’s get degrees
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55%
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80%
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55% about normal for me
50%
65%
70% I’ll take it
100 percent. And I didn’t even guess.
45%. Some new names for me.
70%
Not sure the Flymph really fits nicely into a category.
70%…don’t know my flies as well as I thought.
100%
Cowdung??? Hippie Stomper????
I’m gonna have to google them!
55% rapid guessing
65%. Proud to say I just really don’t know my dry flies.
75%
90%
90%, I missed flymph & hippie stomper. This quiz looks very familiar, if we didn’t have it before we certainly had a lot of the same questions. I’d like to know if I did better this time around.
Uh, it says “Classic” right in the title. Yes, it’s from last year. I checked to see how you did on it before, but you didn’t post a score or didn’t take the quiz.
50%
75 %
50%
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65%. Ouch.
65%…never heard of the Cowdung.
90%
25%.
90% I object, half nymph/half wet and I picked wrong half as my answer!
65%. Need to study up.
90%
50%
35%
85%
70%
90% yeah!
50% I believe I am stuck at this point. Maybe need to buy a fly fishing encyclopedia. lol
65%… didn’t put too much thought into this one did you phil?
50%
85%
75%
80 but the flymph is both a wet and a nymph. Both answers are correct wet and nymph
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only 65%
75%
100%. Wish I could do that on all of them.
The Parmachene Belle tied as a streamer is popular in Maine
65%
75%
65%
85%, I still say the green weinee is a wet fly
70% better than my usual
65%
60
35%
60%
65% might have to contest what a flymph is. Pete Hidy states it is changing from “wingless nymphs to flies with wings”
45%
75%
55% ha.. yikes
65%, getting better
45% I struggle with flies, who tied them, authors, fishing history, rob building, but I excel at biology/geography. This quiz not my forte.
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Really wish there was a feature that allowed editing of posts.
75%
45. Nuff said
80%
Measly 45%
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35%
Dang! 65%
Marked me wrong for answering Butt Monkey as a streamer…it’s not a nymph, is it?
50%
95% Yahoo!!!!
55% better than last quiz
You scored 90%!. I guess I know about some flies!
70% a new record for me
30%… what ever!
60
60%
fifty percent
40% killin’em!
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70%
something isn’t right.
I took the quiz. Picked streamer for the Parmechene Belle which it is and it switched it to a wet fly answer when I finished the quiz. Thought you should know
my mistake, sorry the Parmechene Belle is a wet fly
90%
75%
85% Better than usual.
85%.
You scored 95%
70%
95%
80%
You scored 75%!