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 questions about fish species, famous fly tiers, and angling geography.
The last quiz was extraordinarily tough, producing no–perfect scores and just one 90%. And even our high-scorer, Jeremiah Bakk, claimed that he guessed on four questions and wrote, “Thank you multiple choice!” The most common score dropped back to 50%.
Two questions caused the most problems: Only 8% of you knew that L.Q. Quackenbush (sometimes written as Q.L. Quackenbush) came up with the idea in in 1929. Also, although both Maine and Oregon have become smallmouth-bass destinations, the species is not native to either state.
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive a copy of Dave Karczynski’s Smallmouth: Modern Fly-Fishing Methods, Tactics, and Techniques, from Stackpole Books. According to the publisher, this is the first book to cover the cutting-edge techniques and fly patterns being used by some of the country’s top fly fishing guides. Though most of these flies and techniques have been developed and refined in the rivers and lakes of the Midwest (a hotbed of smallmouth fly fishing) anglers can adapt them for their waters.
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org), and recipient of a signed copy of Bob Clouser’s Fly-Fishing for Smallmouth: in Rivers and Streams, was Charles Falchetti, who described the quiz as having “Several tuffies.”
So post your score below for a chance to win a great book.
Good luck!
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Now I have to clean the coffee off my screen from Q4
80% Not too terribly awful….
60
90%
40% Great trivia questions! Learned from this one.
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🙁 50%
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50% ughh
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50…I need to learn to read.
40% yuck
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50%. Never seem to get the originator of fly patterns.
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Phil, I call foul on the first question! – which “trout species” is least tolerant to high water temps . . . brook trout are technically a char . . . 🙂
Great quiz as always!
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40% – got everything I knew, missed everything I guessed…
60 🙁
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70 percent
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40% Better luck next time.
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My standard 40%….
80%
Just 40%
50%. Hey I never claimed to be a good guesser!
70%: I’d have had 80% but mis-read the question on trout/heat thinking it asked for the “most” tolerant. Argh!
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80% improved from an F to a B-
70% A gentleman’s C.
I failed 50% ugh
80%.
60% About average for me lately
80%
70% C’s get degrees… Or in my case, hopefully a book!
80%
All time low 20%
guessed on one question. Still only 50%.
Seventy. Acceptable!
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Darn you Bonneville . . .
And holy cow Al Troth! Originator of 2 of my top 3 flies!
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50 % bummer
80% Guessed on two. Great quiz!
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50 % not bad for me.
50 % for me this was good
30%…seems like my new norm :-0
70%. Kern River cutthroat was tricky. Kern river golden, of course.
90%
70% Should be happy compared to last week. But, alas, I thought I had nailed it. Sigh.
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80%
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60%, again. C’mon Phil!
70%…and thought I aced it.
60; no more pop ups!
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10% 🙁
70% But I disagree with the introduction of Brown Trout from different countries
I have always read it was Germany and Scotland
Germany and Scotland is the correct answer.
50. I should have done better
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70%…meh
30%. ew.
70%- meh. BTW- for those interested, Zack Matthews has a great podcast on the origins of trout in America on The Itinerant Angler Podcast: All the Trout in the World with Chris Newton, Ssn. 11, Ep. 1. Fascinating stuff!
50%, downhill slide!
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50% no bueno.
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80% Yay
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80% I should know these
70. Thought I did much worse
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80%. And of course the unethical shuffle is from my home river…
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80%. Not too bad.
70%. Blah.
50% …. The usual.
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90%. This one was relatively easy except I believed tha Arkansas propaganda about the biggest brown trout
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90% because I was quite certain that the IGFA Brown Trout was from MI, not NZ.
30%, great quiz!