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 a classic, which will see what you know about native trout, famous rod builders, flies, and history.
Performance on last quiz was a great leap forward, as eight people achieved perfection. Let’s hear it for Winston, Erik, Mark P, shoo-fly, David, Mike, Bob T, and fausto. A further fourteen respondents scored 90%, and the most common score fell a bit from the previous week, to 70%.
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive a copy of Ed Engle’s Fishing Small Flies, from Stackpole Books. Using tiny patterns that are tough to see can be a trial, and hooking trout with those itty-bitty hooks can be challenging, as well. Engle, a longtime guide in Colorado, is full of great ideas to help.
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org), and recipient of a copy of Dave Karczynski’s Smallmouth: Modern Fly-Fishing Methods, Tactics, and Techniques, was wayne n, whose score was well off the pace. But he still wins!
So post your score below for a chance to win a great book. And we finally got the answer key back, so you can know exactly what you missed and why.
Good luck!
50%
40%
30%. Shameful.
80%
40%
60%.
70%
80% Bad luck on my guesses
70%
50%–Back to normal.
60%
50%
40% all star score
40%.
60%
50%
50%
50%
Another 60.
40%
60%
60%
70%. I will take it.
40%
60% did better than I thought
50%. Hmmff.
50%
60%
50 percent
40% A plunge from from all-time high from last week.
60%! Wow that is the worst I have scored in a very long time!
60%…that’s a quick drop.
60%
70%
50 %
80%
steady improvement!
60%
50% with much guesswork.
70%
50%
70%
50%
80%
good for 50%
50%
70%
50%
90%
9 right again. 90%.
Thanks
You scored 50%! Just like school
70%
60% very poor
50% ugh
80%
50% Shit!!!
40%
50%
20. I stunk, and I ain’t lyin’!
50%
10% Wow
60%
50%
40%
Bringing down the average with a 20%
50%. By guess and by golly.
60%
50%
70%
60%. Again.
70%
Sixty percent.
50%
40%
60%
No idra how I did that?
60%
30%
40% it’s long way down to reality
30%, ouch
80%
70%
60%
60%, but pretty much guessed on all of them.
70%
30%. Awful
40%
You scored 80%!
20% .. at least it is Friday.
60%
Score 80%
50% … Meh
80% I’ll take it!
70%
My standard 40%….
4/10, not great
60%
30%
70%! Thanks Phil, learn sometime every time,
60% I thought I did better
In the words of Sam Cooke, “Don’t know much about (fly fishing) hissstory. Though I did know the first one, as we just got back from El Pescadore! 30%
30% laid an egg.
70% of my guesses were incorrect…gadzooks!
40% Sliding backwards again!! Going fishing!!!
Oh well, 70% again
60%
60% Still above my average! Should have got #9 since I teach math!!
50% ouch!
50% The cold affecting my brain
70% I can live with that for those questions.
60%
After a few months out of the weekly quiz, I’m back in with 60%.