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07-12-2012, 06:51 PM
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What is your fav non-salmonoid fish to catch on a fly rod?
As it says, what is your favorite non-salmonoid fish to catch on a fly rod? I am still waiting to catch anything on my 5 wt, but I have heard that goldeye is fun on a 5, pike fun on an 8.
What's your favorite? Post pics if you got em!
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07-12-2012, 07:04 PM
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bass!
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07-12-2012, 07:25 PM
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1. Pike 2. Bass 3. Walleye
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07-12-2012, 07:43 PM
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The only fish I've caught besides trout on my flyrod are perch, lake whitefish, and goldeye. Lake whitefish fight like demons on a flyrod, goldeye are also a blast. I'd like to try fishing those little cork bass poppers for goldeye, given their preference for drys fished with some action and their willingness to hit a shallow diver worked on the surface I think they would catch goldeye pretty well.
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07-12-2012, 07:48 PM
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Pike in lily pads. Any of you youngsters remember a movie called "Jaws"?
Same creepy feeling as you watch your big deer hair imitation get closer and closer to the boat.
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07-12-2012, 07:50 PM
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1. Lake Whitefish
2. Pike
3. Bass
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07-12-2012, 08:15 PM
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Goldeye/Mooneye and Pike are tied. Both are awesome fighters. I would put whitefish as an option, but unfortunately they are salmonids. Although they do fight well.
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07-12-2012, 08:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cal
The only fish I've caught besides trout on my flyrod are perch, lake whitefish, and goldeye. Lake whitefish fight like demons on a flyrod, goldeye are also a blast. I'd like to try fishing those little cork bass poppers for goldeye, given their preference for drys fished with some action and their willingness to hit a shallow diver worked on the surface I think they would catch goldeye pretty well.
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The "boobie" fly works great for a goldeye popper. Its awesome to see a goldeye come up and smash it.
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07-12-2012, 08:54 PM
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West african tarpon
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07-12-2012, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Albertafisher
The "boobie" fly works great for a goldeye popper. Its awesome to see a goldeye come up and smash it.
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Stop talking about boobies zach.
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07-12-2012, 09:16 PM
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suckers and the sturgeon redhorse suckers and white suckers excite me like no other fish
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07-12-2012, 09:31 PM
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West african tarpon
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Aren't tarpon from the Caribbean? I always thought they were caught in ocean flats area like ascension bay in Mexico or from costa rica.
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07-12-2012, 09:51 PM
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When the goldeye are on may flies you can pretty much wear your arm out. Get as hifalutin as you like, size 16 angel with precisely 3 wraps of #1 wisp, or as dirty as you like, a quarter ear plug tied to a hook, Goldeye will make you feel like a pro. Although whitefish are salmoniods I've always had a soft spot for them, I figured out how to catch them many years ago before there was any info on them and I was pretty proud of myself, plus they pull like a freight train. I do wish I could get on them in an irrigation ditch, but the trout serenade me.
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07-12-2012, 10:35 PM
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Tarpon( only caught small ones), alligator gar, mackerel
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07-12-2012, 10:41 PM
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Bluegills And Rock Bass
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07-12-2012, 10:41 PM
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1. Lake Whitefish
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Lake whitish are salmonids for future reference. I like goldeye as they readily take dries, nymphs, and streamers, nothing beats real trout in Alberta though.
Edit, sorry for mentioning that again, see it up higher already..
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07-13-2012, 12:02 AM
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Gold eye are a blast!
Big pike are fun on the surface.
My goal is to get a Cayman bone fish and permit my this time next year.
Bones look like too much fun!
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07-13-2012, 12:07 AM
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Only ever caught salmonids...but taking the 6-wt out East in a few weeks, to scrap with some Smallmouths. Should be fun.
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07-13-2012, 01:33 AM
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goldeye? baracuda on a 5 weight was fun.
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jack crevalle, pike, bonefish (bones would rank higher if they werent so bloody hard to catch:P )
cheers
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07-13-2012, 10:12 AM
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Tarpon!
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07-13-2012, 10:31 AM
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Carp from skaha lake and okanagan river on a 6wt, knuckle busting!
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07-13-2012, 05:49 PM
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Stop talking about boobies zach.
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My bad! I forgot this was a family-friendly forum 
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07-16-2012, 10:51 PM
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hey, I want to catch some goldeye on the fly in the south sask river near med hat, anyone got any tips? 
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07-17-2012, 05:34 PM
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hey, I want to catch some goldeye on the fly in the south sask river near med hat, anyone got any tips? |
Use foam based dry flies and skate them across the surface of the run. Make sure they're rising in the area. other than that, its same as flyfishing for trout. You might get quite a few mooneye as well as goldeye.
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08-15-2012, 05:32 PM
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do you know any good spots? do they like structure or rapids?
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08-15-2012, 06:02 PM
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Should be getting really good for the goldeye right now, check out the river in the evening, all those rising fish are goldeye. We are coming into really good may fly hatches around the hat, a size 12 or 14 dry should put you into fish, they are not fussy. Just below rapids should be good.
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08-15-2012, 06:08 PM
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I'm going to have to say rainbow trout. Ecause that's all I've cought on the fly rod
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I would like to try walleyes on the fly.
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