What is your favourite species and why?

[darrell.cook]

Pike. Last Autumn and winter I fished almost totally for pike. In the autumn watching them follow or just crash from nowhere into surface lures - fantastic.

The variety of methods you can use include all sorts, legering, float, sunk float, etc. all add to the appeal for me. There is something hard to define about pike - top of the food chain and all that.

[Newt]

Mookie - welcome to you.

 

Favorite for me is the flathead catfish followed closely by blue catfish.

 

Both can get to be monster fish. Both have a very bad attitude and feel like you have hooked onto a fast attack submarine.

 

Carp a close second because of their fight.

 

Largemouth bass also a close second when I feel like hunting rather than sitting in wait. Great fight but short.

[Rob Ward]

Tench, allthough I mostly fish for Carp and Pike now.

 

Theres something about a float lifting and sliding under early on a summer morning that gets me every time.

[Les]

I know I should be in another forum with this, but its Carp for me as well

Very closely followed by the old "Tinca"

[Les]

Forgot to say why

The joy of landing a carp after a hard "fight".

[Eddie]

Carp followed ever so closely by Pike!

[dexter]

I honestly don't think I have favourite. But my favorite days are those spent trotting a River on lightish tackle when you don't know whats going to come out. My favourite fish then, the next one.

 

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[Chris Plumb]

Dexter - SNAP!

 

 

Chris

[Apache]

Mine would have to be a toss up between carp and trout. They are both gd fighters...

[Andy Nellist]

Mist rising off the water on a June morning, rounded dorsal momentarily glimpsed as it cuts silently through the surface, the hard dogged intellegent fight combined with a majestic beauty .... Tinca Tinca