Fish species you've never caught?

[Whatever]

For local native species, I have never caught burbot (aka ling), or sturgeon. And there are a few lakes south of me that have introduced Golden Trout, at 8000 ft elevation. We have Walleye now as well, but I have never caught one.

In Eastern Montana, they have native Paddlefish, and Gar, and I have frequently thought about targeting them.

[Bluebasser86]

I don't think there's any species in Kansas that I haven't caught. Probably the closest fish to me that I haven't caught that I'd like to would be a Tiger Muskie or Lake Trout.

[Teal]

There's probably alot that I havent caught.  But as far as what we have locally, I think I've pretty most of them in the boat at one time or another in terms of freshwater.   One that comes to mind that I know I havent caught Is a freshwater drum.  I know there are some in Kerr Lake/Buggs Island Reservoir.  I've seen videos of guys catching them when bass fishing on Kerr.  Looks like fun. I have never seen nor caught a smallie on the local lakes near me.  I have however caught them from lakes on the western side of the state and up in VA on the western side.  Walleye are few and far between here but I have caught a few.  Good eating.  I've caught more long nose gar than I care to talk about.. dang poachers.  

[TheBasslayer]

I haven't caught:

Brook Trout or Steelhead

Any type of catfish

Walleye(I've caught a Sauger in a river, not a Walleye)

Sturgeon/Paddlefish

Muskie

[roadwarrior]

Never fished for/caught a musky or sturgeon.

[TnRiver46]

12 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Never fished for/caught a musky or sturgeon.

I’ve got one muskie and two sturgeon, of course not trying for them 

[Black Hawk Basser]

Flathead catfish and muskie.  Don't think I've ever caught a redear sunfish, either.  There are just not many flatheads in the area lakes, and the local river just won't gift me with one, even though I've thrown 1,000 different artificial baits there.  I never live bait fish, though, so I imagine I'd get one that way.  They started stocking muskie in my local lake about 8 years ago.  I've had two muskie 'blowups' there on topwaters, and one good hookup and fight on a spinnerbait until the wire arm broke.  Never got her into my hands, just got a good look near my feet at the bank.

[CM-fisher]

Fish that I want to catch but haven't yet:

Open water northern pike (I've only caught them ice fishing)

Brown Trout (going camping in June at the Root River to fish for them)

Walleye

Channel Catfish

Tiger Muskie

[CrankFate]

Walleye, Muskie, Pike.

Sheepshead, Grouper, Red Snapper.

 

This is also my bucket list.

[NYWayfarer]

Striped Bass. It’s a sin to live in this state and not have caught one.

 

Every time I made plans for a trip for Striped Bass something came up and derailed me.

[RobA]

3 hours ago, NYWayfarer said:

Striped Bass.

Great fish to catch and one of the few I keep to eat.

[fishingtx]

small mouth

pike

walleye

flounder

salmon

any off shore fish

[Tennessee Boy]

I grew up fishing the Duck River in Tennessee which has been called the most biologically diverse river in the country.  It has 151 species of fish.   I think I’ve caught 14 of them but I’m still working on it. ?

[fishingtx]

On 1/3/2021 at 6:41 PM, Whatever said:

Golden Trout

had to google this one

now it is on my bucket list of fish to catch

[E-rude dude]

Too too many to list. So I’ll list what I have caught.

Black bass

White bass

Rock bass

White Crappie

Black Crappie

Sun Fish

Pumpkin seed

Blue Gill

War Mouth

White perch

Perch

Flat head catfish

Channel catfish

Bullhead

Walleye

Sauger

Northern

Muskie

Sturgeon (accidentally, illegal to hook line catch them)

King Salmon

Chinook Salmon 

Rainbow Trout

Brown Trout

Buffalo

Gar

Carp

Went Deep sea fishing when I was young can’t remember what we caught.

 

 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Snail darter 

[billmac]

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Snail darter 

I think I saw them on an episode of River Monsters

[WVU-SCPA]

50 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Snail darter 

I'll raise you a Candy Darter.

 

Most of my fishing has been east of the Mississippi river system so the list is larger.

 

My biggest would be a bowfin.  Have one local lake that has them but have yet to make it happen.

[haggard]

Brook trout. When I finally catch one, I'm hoping it will be on a fly rod, because it will also be the first fish I ever caught on a fly rod.

 

[Junk Fisherman]

Musky (never got one in the boat)

Sturgeon

[Tennessee Boy]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Snail darter 

Did you have David Etnier as a professor at UT?

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Did you have David Etnier as a professor at UT?

Sure did. He fishes with wads of night crawlers on bottom haha

9 minutes ago, Junk Fisherman said:

Musky (never got one in the boat)

Sturgeon

Ironically I’ve caught both of those in a cast net ?‍♂️ 

[Tennessee Boy]

9 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sure did. He fishes with wads of night crawlers on bottom haha

I would've thought he would use only live Snail Darters.
 

 

(I'm assuming you're old enough to get the joke)

[Smells like fish]

Duck River immediately made me think of the Duck River Sword cache. Is that something that all the locals such as yourself is familiar with?  @Tennessee Boy
 

Snail Darter? Let’s us know when that’s accomplished @TnRiver46 

 

Stripers, get over top of them with a 2 ounce Mann’s manalure in yellow and you’ll be a school teacher in no time! @NYWayfarer

[Tennessee Boy]

57 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Duck River immediately made me think of the Duck River Sword cache. Is that something that all the locals such as yourself is familiar with?  @Tennessee Boy

No,  I'd never heard about it until now.   I did google it and it looks interesting.  The artifacts are at the Johnsonville Historic Park.   I've been wanting to go there for a while but never got around to it.  Lot of history there.  Now I have another reason to go.  I'm glad you mentioned it. The family farm is on the Duck River a good distance up river from the site in question.  Back before no-till farming became the norm,  my grandfather used to find a lot of arrow heads every spring when he plowed the fields.  I think the native Americans made them along the river.  The ones we found look like the factory rejects. ?