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Hey there guys, 
 
I've been lucky and able to fish (on the excuse of business) around the world and have caught lots of different species of fish.  I've tried to search out and fish for unique fish. 
 
This is not a braggin' post! I just wonder (number wise) how many freshwater species other people have caught? And what's the most unique or interesting one you've caught? When you think about it, you'd be suprised at how many you've racked up if you fish regularly. It's fun to go down memory lane for us older guys. ha ha 
 
Hope there's a lot of posts, 
 
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		hi, well i,ve caught my brookies, rainbows,browns perch bass small and large, horn pout even a stupid eel,suckers, dase, that,s bout it for me oh pickeral. carp that almowt pulled me in when i was 5 and the eel, the puppy  kept tryin to git hold of it nad i,ve got my line way out to stay away from the stupid thing and tryin to pull it aways from the pup at the same time.that was fun! so i got sick of it and just cut the line and got it back to the triver haha 
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		Let's see, rainbows, browns, 2-3 strains of cutts ( I'm not sure because I caught some that were juveniles, and I'm not sure what kind was there), brookies, splake, tiger trout, perch, smallies and largies (bass), green sunfish (but no bluegill surprisingly), black bullhead, oh yeah, and chubs. So not counting different strains: 12. 
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		1. blue gill  
2. war mouth bass  
3. pumpkinseed  
4. sun fish  
5. deap water roache  
6. giant minnow (lake hairing)  
7. cisco  
8. perch  
9. white horese sucker  
10. red horse sucker  
11. small mouth bass  
12. large mouth bass  
13. rock bass  
14. carp  
15. crappie white  
16. crappie black  
17. trout rainbow  
18. trout brown  
19. trout brook  
20. salmon chinook  
21. splake  
22. saugeye  
23. walleye  
24. pike northern  
25. pike gar  
26. cat fish channel  
27. cat fish black bull heads  
28. cat fish yellow bull heads  
 
29. sturgen  
 
30. dog fish (bow)  
 
31. cray fish (craw dad)  
 
32. eel (lamphey) 
 
33. tubrous gobey  
 
34. mallard duck  
 
35. zebra mussle  
 
36. fresh water clam  
 
37. papst blue ribbon can with a 6 inch cat fish stuck in side  
 
38. a 36 d cup brazeer [angelic]  
 
it looks like I still have a few to land to have them all. [cool] 
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		[font "Arial"][size 2]Maybe more, but this is all I can remember right off.  
 
1. Blue Gill Red Breast  
2. Blue Gill Red Ear  
3. Blue Gill  
4. sun fish  
5. pumpkinseed  
6. War mouth robin  
7. Black Drum  
8. perch White  
9. perch Yellow  
10.perch Flier  
11.Red Fin Pike  
12.large mouth bass  
13.Flounder  
14.carp  
15.Rock fish  
16.crappie black  
17.Tout Speckle  
18.Tout Grey  
19.Blue Fish  
20.red horse mullet  
21.Herring  
22.Shad Hickory  
23.Shad American  
24.cat fish River  
25.cat fish Blue  
26.cat fish channel  
27.cat fish bull heads  
28.cat fish yellow swamp  
29.Red Drum  
30.Bowfin Mudfish  
31.Flounder  
32.gar  
33.eel  
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		I haven't caught near as many fish species as the rest of the guys.  Although I have Caught around 15 or more. 
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		Golly...Years ago when my youngest son was 11 he came traipsing across the campground with all the other kids right beside him. Dragging behind him was a very unhappy mallard on his bass plug. He still claims that duck fought harder than any fish he's caught yet. Anyway I got that poor critter unsnagged and turned loose and told my son he's the only one I ever heard of catching a duck. Guess I was wrong.[cool] 
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		*sighs  
 
1.Carp  
 
2.Largemouth Bass  
 
[blush][blush][blush][blush][blush][blush][blush][blush][blush][unsure] 
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		Hi Ron,  
 
Not so much as how many you caught but to how many you released.  Thousands of walleye, hundreds of pike, musky, crappie, bass, sheephead, drums, carp, flatheads, channels, blues, gills, man the list never ends.  I fish barbless hooks, release at boatside if possible, and run a real good live well system as needed.  I also use a rubber coated net for slime protection for fish.  love Life and taker a kid fishin'  
 
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		I have actulay caught several ducks in my life time, I try not to but some times I am just so relaxed out on the water I dont even pay attion to what is going on around the bobber untill I finaly notice it is missing (for how long... ?) you would think your hook would be safe 2 foot under the water, but I gess when you've got the right bait, nothing is safe from your hook. (dont ask what I was usiing for bait [laugh]) 
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Hi there davetclown and other contributors, 
 
Maybe we ought to ask 'how many other animals have you caught while fishing?' ha ha 
 
I caught my dad once, once was enough! 
I've caught brown pelicans, a tern, a bunch of seagulls, small diving bird???, a crab, starfish, various bi-valves, frog, red banded water snake (4ft long and hissing), sea lion, jellyfish, moray eel, various rays! oh ya, last and NOT LEAST a small squeeking fruit bat caught on a back cast. 
 
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		what is a grey trout? 
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		yeah i too have caught plenty of animals.   seagulls, terns, two mallard ducks, my dog on several occasions, and last week while practicing my spot casting in the front yard, I caught the neighborhood cat!   I had on a silver grub without the hook, and was casting it across my grass to some targets i had set out.  On the retrieve that gray grub must have looked like a mouse skipping across the grass. 
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		[  ] 1.walleye 
 
2.Northern 
 
3.muskie 
 
4.pickeral 
 
5.largemouth bass 
 
6.smallmouth bass 
 
7.white bass 
 
8.rock bass 
 
9.bluegill 
 
10.pumpkinseed 
 
11.sunfish 
 
12.white crappie 
 
13.perch 
 
14.sauger 
 
15.freshwater drum 
 
16.tullibees 
 
17.whitefish 
 
18.black crappie 
 
19.rainbow trout 
 
20.brown trout 
 
21.cutthroat 
 
22.lake trout 
 
23.king salmon 
 
24.chinnok salmon 
 
25.splake 
 
26.dog fish 
 
27.cat fish 
 
28.black bullhead 
 
29.brown bullhead 
 
30.sucker 
 
31.carp 
 
32.redhorse 
 
33.buffalohead 
 
34.goldeneye 
 
35.sheepshead 
 
36.burbout 
 
37.mudpuppie 
 
38.crayfish 
 
39.clams 
 
40.brookie trout 
 
I think I got all of them ! 
 
I've been in the boat when a live  bat was caught on the line, a top of a human skull, a pair of glasses, a anchor, assorted fishing eqiupment,etc 
 
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		lol, thanks you reminded me of a couple other things I had caught, so I went back up and eddited them in. 
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