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 offer 10 classic questions about famous fly-fishing authors, fly patterns, world records, and more.
The last quiz showed some improved scores, as we had four 100%ers. Give it up for winston, Mike, DWF, and Britt Davenport. A further sixteen(!) people scored 90%, and the most common score jumped up two slots to 70%.
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive a signed copy of 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 Bruce Staples’s Fly Fishing the Greater Yellowstone Backcountry was Kurt S., whose score was a tad below average. Perhaps the book can help bring that up.
So post your score below (or below the post on our Facebook page!) for a chance to win a great book.
Good luck!
30% 🙁
40%
70%
70%
50%
90% you misspelled cutthroat 🙂
60%. A lot better than I thought I would do
20% and I’m embarrassed.
40% but I’m not embarrassed haha
80%
60%, going in the right direction
40%
70%
couple of questions were a coin toss and I came up wrong
40%
50%
60%
thought I was a question or two better but NOPE!
60% sad to say an improvement over the past few.
50%.
30%. All guesses wrong.
90%
You scored 80%!
60% missed the guesses
50% tail between legs
100% with several lucky guesses.
50%
60%
60%! Middle of the pack, I’ll take it. Would love Toms book I’m a huge fan.
40%
60%
70%
60%
80!
80%
60%
50%
40%
60%
40% Really pathetic
50% thought I would score better
100%
40 % ouch
60% – better than my last two
100%
Bah. 60%
60%
Only 70% – clearly I need this book!!
oh no 10%
60%.
70% – That’s pretty fly ( get it! )
60%
60%
50%
50% another low
100% surprisingly, few were guesses based on a gut feeling!
70% expected worse
60% Is it Spring yet?
60%
70% yay!
70%
80%
lot of guesses this time, but at least they were the correct ones 100
30%
40%
90%
60%
50%
60%
40%
40%. Not good, but a touch better than random chance
40%.
30%
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70%
50%
40%
50%
70%.
50%
40%
40%…I should of done better!
100%
40%
70%
40%!!
90%
100%
50%
60%
40
50% again
50%
50 %. As usual, I did not know the names of the fishing destinations…
A shameful 30%
60%.
30%
70%
60% Not bad! Should have spent more time fishing yesterday!!
40% Looks like you’ll have to hold me back a year again.
70
40%
40% all time low
A surprising 50%
40%
50% Some of the questions were not in scope of knowledge.
Thought I did ok.
50%…stick with your first answer.
60%… oh well.
60%
You scored 50%! Seems like I’m back in high school
50%
60%
Wow
One of my best ha
60%
50% shameful
70%
8 fins! 50
50%
60%
90% I got lucky
60%…. my best yet….hooray for D?!
40%
50. I thought I did better
70
40%☺
40%
40%
40%
40%
70% A dang D!
60%.
30%
50%
60%
50%
80%
50%
40%
70%!
90%! Best score ever. I should guess more often.
70%
70%
70%