07-29-2024, 07:14 PM
(07-29-2024, 06:37 PM)Redrebel Wrote: With over 200 species caught, what species was your favorite to catch?
Not trying to be cutesy wootsy, but all of them were my favorites...at the time I caught them.
On a more serious level, I would have to break it down into subcategories...and then codgertate a lot to be able to assign levels of favoritism. I have caught huge sharks and some big salt water fish...like marlin, sailfish and swordfish...and tuna. But I still often return in my rememberies to the wondrous days of my youth...walking stream banks in Idaho and fishing for small wild trout. And in my adult years I spent a whole lotta time trekking in the high mountains of the west...seeking out remote lakes and streams that still hold those purty little things.
I have always enjoyed waving a fairy wand for bluegills...or pulling perch through a hole in the ice. Some of my greatest fishing enjoyment is provided by the less glamorous species...like catfish. Although I will lower myself to fish for trout once in a while (snicker, snicker).
In short, I love any fish that wants to scratch my itch at the time I itch.
Tough question. A good one for all anglers to ask themselves from time to time...and to try to be honest in answering themselves.