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 serve up another ten questions, fresh from the mind of the Quizmaster and Uncle Google.
The last quiz knocked y’all for a loop, as there were no perfect scores. However, three of you missed just a single question: Al Cravinho, Mikael Pertmann, and Judy W.. The most common score fell back to a 50%. The question about Sunapee trout was a real toughie, but this one surprised me:
Redband, golden, and rainbow trout are all Oncorhynchus mykiss, while the cutthroat is Oncorhynchus clarkii. Looking at some of the other questions, however, I see that I had a couple with some gray area. This week should be more clear-cut. Let’s get those scores back up, people!
The winner of this week’s random drawing will receive a copy of Ed Engle’s wonderful book Tying Small Flies, from Stackpole Books. If you struggle at the vise when trying to create tiny midges, olives, and the like, then this is the book for you.
The winner of our last quiz (as determined by random.org), and recipient of Tom Rosenbauer’s The Orvis Guide to Hatch Strategies: Successful Fly Fishing for Trout Without Always Matching the Hatch, was Allen S, whose score would certainly be helped if we graded on a curve.
So post your score below for a chance to win a great book.
Good luck!
50%
50%. Got excited until I realized that last week’s winner read Allen S instead of AlanS!
80%
70%
40%
60%
80%
90%
70%. Ed’s book would be sweet.
60% Pure guessing, but fun. Have a great weekend!
A little better than last quiz 60%
passing grade 70%
80%
60% Started strong but faded later.
40%
90% best in a long time
70%. Ah well, keeps my expectations low.
80%
40%
There is a Harriman State Park in New York. I didn’t think any famous trout streams ran through it but the W. Branch of the Delaware was the closest so I picked that one. Alas there is another Harriman Park….
That’s my excuse for getting the other questions wrong too!
50%
40%
70%
50%
40%
70%
80%.. Not bad for only having one coffee today 🙂
60% – Ugh! Thought I had a couple of those bad ones correct.
50%
80%
70%, fair.
60%
40%
50%
40%
80 %. Two guesses, two wrong.
90%
70% and I was pretty sure that Browns and Brooks couldn’t interbreed naturally.
40%
50%
30% as usual
60%
80%
60%
70%
90%
40%
🙁
60%.
Ouch— 40%. Embarrassing .
40
30%. Back to my old ways.
90 % my best score
70
80%. Better than last week.
60%
Too embarrassing…
50%
80%. After last week’s debacle I’ll take it.
Dropped a notch down to 80% this week, Harriman park & Dolly Varden threw me.
60
30
70% and that was after three tall Green Monster I.P.A
40%
60%
100%…what?!?!
70%
40
You scored 90%!
60% same as last week
70%. I would have aced it but my wife is 9 months pregnant.
70%
70%. Better than last week’s.
30%
30%
70%
60
70%; at least I passed!
Hallelujah! 100%
70%.
70%
70%
20%, not getting any better
40%
70%
You scored 70%!
A 70% with a few good quesses improved my average. Nice quiz. Thanks.
50. Not to whippy on the salt water side
50%
80%. I too was sucker-punched by the Harriman State Park question.
50%
60% should have stayed home and studied instead of gone fishing yesterday, NOT!!
80% best score yet!
100%
80% reading is paying off
80%
70%! Movin’ on up.
40%
Yeeouch. 40%
20%….!!!!????
100% with a little luck on #10
80%
70%
80%
80%
90% my best effort!!
80%
WooHoo! 100%!
Chuck
90%! As a former NYer, i was sure NY had the only Harriman State Park.
Even when I know I know, I don’t know. 40. Thank G there’s not these tests to get on the water.