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Steve Wozniak hits 2000


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Not his age, not his cricket score, but the number of species caught.

Steve is the top man of  we species hunters -his tally of 2000 makes the 502 that Norma and I have knocked up look puny.   It would be easy to make excuses, like "it helps if your home base is California and you have the time and cash to travel," but these 2000 species still have to be caught - so one needs plenty of all-round angling skill and know-how.

So I for one will drink a toast tonight to Steve's achievement - I hope many of you will join me.

Species hunting gives you a new oerspective on angling - for instance my 95th UK species was a porbeagle shark, my 96th was a ten-spined stickleback (or perhaps t'was t'other way round) anyway, the total effort put into catching each was about equal - the macho bits of bullying a 3oo lb shark was matched by the persistence needed in locating  ten-spined jacksin the maze of brackish dykes they live in  and getting them to take a scrap of harbour rag (size 24 hook) before a myriab of tiny bass, perch, sand smelt, roach (yes they are all there!) beat them to it.

Well done Steve !!

 

 

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

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I nearly didn't bother to look - thought it was about something FAR LESS remarkable - like 2,000 Posts!!

Congratulations on your Mahoosive achievement Steve.  :fishing::fishing::fishing:

Fishin' - "Best Fun Ya' can 'ave wi' Ya' Clothes On"!!

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Not Apple's Steve Wozniak then....?

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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16 minutes ago, Ken L said:

Not Apple's Steve Wozniak then....?

Where's that come from Ken?

I was just saying that whilst browsing, your thread was a bit understated re the Title, given the magnitude of Steve's achievement. ie 2,000 what??

Had you added "Species" as the end word, we wouldn't be having this conversation!!

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I thought  it a new darts score ! Sure there was a surname similar in darts.

Sure beats my species? (Individual type of fish names?) score by about 1990 but he still has 26,000 odd to go lol

If rudd and roach are in the same family surely thats the species? so "species" as a family muddles the numbers wheras fish by name (latin or common human tongue) are different

Blimey if i caught just one fish but used every name on the planet for it that would rank up my score! I could use human names for say a roach then add on all the foreign names for it ?

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8 hours ago, Martin56 said:

Where's that come from Ken?

I was just saying that whilst browsing, your thread was a bit understated re the Title, given the magnitude of Steve's achievement. ie 2,000 what??

Had you added "Species" as the end word, we wouldn't be having this conversation!!

The first thing I did when I read it was to think that it can't be the same guy = and a quick search for - Steve Wozniak fishing - confirmed it.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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On 7/31/2021 at 9:34 AM, Ken L said:

The first thing I did when I read it was to think that it can't be the same guy = and a quick search for - Steve Wozniak fishing - confirmed it.

As far as I am concerned there is only one Steve W that matters - nothing remarkable about several guys having the same name - didn't Dave Gorman find scores of Dave Gormans and write a book about it ?

 

 

RNLI Governor

 

World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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50 minutes ago, Vagabond said:

As far as I am concerned there is only one Steve W that matters - nothing remarkable about several guys having the same name - didn't Dave Gorman find scores of Dave Gormans and write a book about it ?

Both of them seem to have led remarkable lives in their respective fields.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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