How many freshwater species in one session

[NYWayfarer]

How many species of freshwater fish have you caught in one fishing session?

 

I believe I hit my record today of 5 species. All caught on night crawlers and Yum Dingers. 

 

Brook Trout, Pumpkinseed and Perch caught on night crawlers. Chain Pickerel and Largemouth Bass caught on Yum Dingers. All in a 3 hour fishing trip. 

 

[Russ E]

I had one day at the local lake this spring that I caught seven. All on a ned rig.

Bass fishing was slow that day and I was searching new areas for fish.

 

Largemouth bass

smallmouth bass

crappie

white bass

walleye

drum

trout

[RealtreeByGod]

What do we count as one session? Between dock and kayak fishing most in one day was:

*Largemouth 

*Spot 

*White Crappie 

*Drum 

*Flathead 

*Channel Cat

*Bluegill 

But it was between like 3 different lures and 2 different rods. 

[Bluebasser86]

All on a jerkbait and ned rig;

largemouth bass

smallmouth bass

white bass

rainbow trout

white crappie

black crappie

warmouth

green sunfish

drum

walleye

yellow perch

channel catfish

 

I believe the only fish in the lake that I didn't catch that day are common carp, flathead catfish, wiper, and bluegill. 

[soflabasser]

I often catch 10 or more species of freshwater fish in 1 day of fishing. It helps that I fish in South Florida where there are dozens of species of fish swimming in the canals, ponds, and lakes.

[TnRiver46]

It’s pretty diverse here but I usually forget to count. Since last night is fresh on my mind, we caught 2 rock bass, one smallmouth, a bunch of white bass, a drum and a walleye. Could have easily caught a yellow bass, largemouth, spotted bass, bluegill, skipjack herring,  or various sunfish and catfish in the same area. And occasionally sauger striper and wiper

[A-Jay]

Hitting for the cycle here happens often.  Green & brown bass, walleye and pike are the usual players.  Things get interesting very early season when the big brown trout start getting mixed in.  Adding a big musky to all that always makes for a very memorable outing.  

 I don't usually catch panfish unless I'm targeting them.

A-Jay 

[Jleebesaw]

It depends on the type of fishing I'm doing. I normally get at least 3 every time I go out. Smallmouth, largemouth, and northern pike. Sometimes a crappie or other panfish. Thats the norm when I'm bass fishing. Bass doesnt open until june here.

       This time of year I'm fishing for the freezer. Thursday night i went out for crappie. I caught some of those and then stumbled into some big perch, so i stayed on them for awhile. When it started getting dark, i put the boat on the trailer and set up for bullheads at the launch. At first I was catching small perch. Then a couple of bluegills and a rock bass. All too small for keeping. Eventually the bullhead started biting and I got a bunch of those. There was a small largemouth, a small channel cat, and a bowfin in there too. You catch all sorts of stuff when you put worms on the bottom. That's 8 in one night. I have never counted before, but that seems pretty normal for a day of targeting crappie and bullheads. Next weekend walleye opens. I'm sure I will get some eyes and smallmouth. 

[scaleface]

Fishing wing dams on  the Mississippi I  caught

Largemouth

White bass

crappie

walleye

pike

channel cat 

drum

dog fish

[Manly Studson]

My son used a beetle spin to catch bluegill, crappie, green sunfish, largemouth bass, and a creek chub in one hour. The bass were small, but the others were large, especially the crappie.

[BASS302]

When I was a kid, my parents would send me to visit relatives in New Jersey once in a while.  Out there I would regularly catch 5 different types of fish (mostly different types of panfish).

Here where I live (California), the most I've ever caught in one session has been three: largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, & striped bass.

[gnappi]

In freshwater, in So. Flo. we're likely to readily encounter only three:

 

LMB, Peacock bass, and snakehead.

 

The odd pickerel, cichlid, sunshine bass, panfish, oscar, carp, catfish or alligator gar are too infrequently encountered to try and get more (in one day) than the three above I commonly get.

 

[soflabasser]

Caught the following species of fish today while fishing in South Florida freshwater canal systems;

1. peacock bass

2. largemouth bass

3. oscar

4. mayan cichlid

5. jewel cichlid

6. midas cichlid

7. jaguar guapote

8. bowfin

9. gar

10. bluegill

11. redear sunfish

12. spotted sunfish

13. warmouth

Ended the trip early so I could of caught more species of fish if I wanted to. This was a typical day of multi species fishing for me and it is safe to say that South Florida is a fisherman's paradise. 

 

[NYWayfarer]

On ‎5‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 9:32 PM, soflabasser said:

3. oscar

I would love to catch an Oscar.

 

I had an Albino Tiger Oscar for years in a 55 gallon aquarium. Raised him from fry size on flakes, eventually guppies then feeder goldfish. He was dinner plate sized when I gave him to someone with a bigger tank.

[soflabasser]

On 5/8/2019 at 10:44 AM, NYWayfarer said:

I would love to catch an Oscar.

 

I had an Albino Tiger Oscar for years in a 55 gallon aquarium. Raised him from fry size on flakes, eventually guppies then feeder goldfish. He was dinner plate sized when I gave him to someone with a bigger tank.

I have caught at least 1 albino Oscar and a handful of luntino Oscars in all the years I have fished for them in South Florida. Most of the Oscars varieties I catch have regular colors which is also beautiful. You would love fishing in the Everglades since it is filled with Oscars. Most of the Oscars I catch weigh around 0.5-1.5 pounds but I have caught several giants weighing over 2 pounds. They will hit the same lures you use for bass but I prefer to downsize my lure selection since Oscars have small mouths. If you really want to have fun with the Oscars you can use 6 pound test mono. You will catch lots of bycatch fishing this way which means you will have a memorable fishing trip catching lots of species of fish.