Favorite species (outside of bass)

[Big-Bass]

While I have grown up bass fishing for both large and smallmouth bass being mentored by my dad until his passing and still keeping his memory alive every time I am on the water, I also have taken a fond interest into catching multi species through a variety of techniques.  In particular, the last five years I have spent gaining a true love for fly fishing.  In some cases, I would prefer the quiet and the challenge to bass fishing.  What I love the most though (outside of bass) are catching wild trout.  There are a few streams near me with wild and beautiful brook trout, but also a few rivers that produce true monster native brown trout.  My biggest so far has been just under 23" and was caught using a fly during the early summer.  I have caught many others in the 17"- just about 20" range and to be honest, that is a rather common size in this river.  Whether is be fly, or spinning, fishing this river (which my dad also tried for trout with me right before he passed) holds a special place in my heart.  It's close to where I grew up, almost all the brown trout are native (in almost all sections I fish) and there are rumors of native browns being caught upwards of 30".  I also love simple dock fishing for panfish and ice fishing for whatever takes the bait (either tip-up or jigging rod).  Because I tend to like new things, I also try to fish and catch as many new species as I can and try new waterways to target fish species that are new to me.  No one fishing experience is the same and that's part of what I love.  So to you, what are you favorite multi species fish to catch and why?  Thanks for sharing...

[davecon]

At heart I am a bass fisherman having been born and raised and still living in west central Florida. I truly love bass fishing, have been three times in the last nine days. That being said, my favorite fish to catch are :

1 - Snook

2 - Tarpon - usually 40 to 60 pounds

3 - Bass

4 - Bluegills (I know that doesn't fit with numbers 1 through 3, but what the heck)

5 - Sea Trout

6 - Redfish

[Siebert Outdoors]

Walleye

Musky

Pike

Trout

Crappie

Catfish

[mrpao]

Anything  that swims and is biting.

I like them all.

[Jar11591]

Pan fish! For bass, I am strictly catch and release. But I love frying up some bluegill, pumpkinseed, crappie and perch!

[Scott F]

5 hours ago, Big-Bass said:

  There are a few streams near me with wild and beautiful brook trout, but also a few rivers that produce true monster native brown trout. ......  It's close to where I grew up, almost all the brown trout are native (in almost all sections I fish) and there are rumors of native browns being caught upwards of 30".  

Not trying to be too picky but brown trout are not native fish anywhere in the Americas. They were introduced from Europe to the US and Canada in the late 1880's. Your fish may reproduce without stocking which could make them wild fish, but they are not native to the waters you fish.

[IndianaFinesse]

I know i'm gonna be the odd one out on this, but I really love white bass fishing.  I probably spend almost a quarter of my time fishing pursuing them.  They fight harder pound for pound than any other freshwater species I've ever caught, they just go nuts when they're hooked.  Plus they aren't usually picky eaters, white bass will eat almost anything thrown at them.   White bass also tend to be in large schools, so it's easy to catch a bunch in a hurry.  In the average four hour trip, I usually end up with around 40 fish, and occasionally over one hundred fish are caught.  

I enjoy fishing for anything that swims though, catfish, carp, white bass, crappie, bluegill, pike, bass, trout (trout and pike aren't hardly in central Indiana, so I have to fish outside of the state to catch those), I target all of them at some point during the year.

[scaleface]

I like channel cat fishing a lot . Summer night   in my boat anchored on a large flat , a cooler with shad on ice . I know how to catch the cats on Mark Twain .

 

My dad wasnt much into bass , catfish was his favorite . This is one of  the last times we fished together . Hes still alive , just unable to do anything now . 

 

[Big-Bass]

4 hours ago, Scott F said:

Not trying to be too picky but brown trout are not native fish anywhere in the Americas. They were introduced from Europe to the US and Canada in the late 1880's. Your fish may reproduce without stocking which could make them wild fish, but they are not native to the waters you fish.

Oh I completely know Browns are not native to the Americas.  In fact, aside from Germany where they are native, there are distinctive Icelandic populations that have genetic differences from those in mainland Europe that go back close to 11,000 years ago.  Browns are a unique and very wary species of trout that are more predacious than other species that are located in the New World (aside from Bull Trout which live in the Rocky Mountain west region in Montana, Idaho, and a few other remote locations).  The Browns in the river I fish have been naturally reproducing for many decades, therefore I call them native (or should label as wild) since their entire lives have been spent in the river without being a hatchery fish, their lineage is from wild fish, and their offspring will be wild fish.  Thanks!

[Gundog]

Pan fish on the fly rod. You can catch just about one every cast and on a light weight fly rod they are a blast. Plus there is usually a chance of catching a bass in the mix.

[Jagg]

Bluegills, Redears, Redbreasts, Warmouths... Love the panfish, but especially the sunfish.

[Big-Bass]

Never caught a Redear or a Warmouth...here in PA I don't think we have them.

[crypt]

bream,warmouth,catfish,snook,redfish,tarpon.

[Dwight Hottle]

I have lots of favorites outside of bass. Pike, lake trout, steelhead, walleye, muskie & big perch are just some of my favorites.

[WIGuide]

I like fishing for just about anything that swims. Bass are by far my favorite and I spend probably 98% of the time fishing for them, but I enjoy catching everything else as well. 

[SJex]

Pumpkinseed, crappie and trout (rainbow and cutthroat).

[Lucky Craft Man]

Besides Smallmouth Bass, I would say Musky are my next favorite.  After that fly fishing for Steelhead and wild trout are next.  I like fishing for a lot of other fish, but those other species are a distant 4th.

[N Florida Mike]

Freshwater:

Bass

Bream:( all varieties )

catfish.

Saltwater:

Redfish

Flounder

Sheephead

And Whatever else I catch.There is no kind of fishing I've done I don't like.

3 main areas I fish:

Lakes/ponds

Inshore saltwater 

Surf fishing

In that order.

The only kind I'm terrible at is freshwater trout fishing.( unless I use corn lol )

 

 

[TnRiver46]

22 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

I know i'm gonna be the odd one out on this, but I really love white bass fishing.  I probably spend almost a quarter of my time fishing pursuing them.  They fight harder pound for pound than any other freshwater species I've ever caught, they just go nuts when they're hooked.  Plus they aren't usually picky eaters, white bass will eat almost anything thrown at them.   White bass also tend to be in large schools, so it's easy to catch a bunch in a hurry.  In the average four hour trip, I usually end up with around 40 fish, and occasionally over one hundred fish are caught.  

I enjoy fishing for anything that swims though, catfish, carp, white bass, crappie, bluegill, pike, bass, trout (trout and pike aren't hardly in central Indiana, so I have to fish outside of the state to catch those), I target all of them at some point during the year.

+1. Where I live you can keep 15 of them regardless of length so I usually target them for fun and food

[tholmes]

When I'm not fishing for black bass, I like to go after stripers, wipers and catfish (especially blues and flatheads).

 

Tom

[bigfruits]

bluefish and striped bass

[jr231]

I like all species.... 

[JustinJ]

striped bass and bluefish

stream trout on an ultralight

[Yakalong]

Fished for sharks before, that was fun 

but outside of bass it would be trout 

[Bluebasser86]

I enjoy fishing for lots of different fish. Some of my favorites are wiper, muskie, striper, trout, and catfish.