One species for the rest of your days.

[jediangler]

Musky

[Leecher]

My favorite species to target would be speckle trout...... but I have to be realistic, only can fish for them from April to September. It's the most beautiful fresh water fish I've ever seen, hard to catch and puts up a great fight.

 

On the other hand, bass & pike are plentiful up here, so is walleye..... can fish for bass from mid June to end of March..... pike & walleye from mid May to end of March. I mostly practice CPR but like to keep walleyes for a fry.

 

So to answer your question.... walleyes is the species I could target for the rest of my days Good eats and fun to catch!!!

Leechman

[fishinguypat]

who ever said LMB fight hard... have never fought a SMB!!! FTW!!

[castgame]

brookies, no doubt in my mind. perfect fall days in algonquin, when the fire of the leaves are matched by the colours of the fish. and those perfect, dark streams with swirling eddies and endless riffles. every catch is a gem. they're very close to my heart.

[Beans]

At this stage of my life I'm going to say carp mainly because, as much as I enjoy fishing for most species, I can't stand and cast for more than 10 minutes or my back starts to get "ouchy" (don't get old...it hurts too much )...The same out in the "Tin"...4 hours of sitting in her and bouncing around on the waves does me in...

 

With carp fishing, once you get the area chummed and your equipment set-up there is not much more to do but sit back and relax with your friends and wait for old bugle-mouth to pull on your string...

 

Granted it can get quite strenuous hauling in those twenty plus big boys but it is a nice kind of hurt...

 

[Greencoachdog]

Crappie or Catfish... probably Crappie, they're a challenge to catch and taste real good!!!

[EC1]

It's a toss up between crappie and LMB.

[Moosebunk]

Pike and specks are pretty much year round fish, and if I was still living in the north they'd be equals. Now that I'm in the south and have more opportunities for specks, I imagine they will solely take the #1 spot.

 

Like others have said... it's real hard to pick one... cause jiggin' walleyes are a tonne of fun too.

 

 

 

 

[BillM]

Drew, it's all about the brookies man!

 

[Moosebunk]

Bill...

 

Have you ever had a multiple trophy pike day through 40 inches of ice, or... on the river?

 

I hear ya with specks dood. So pretty, so tough, so rare, so special. With big esoxes... so nasty, so toothy, so wily, so special.

 

So hard to choose some days. All depends on moods and seasons. But, if I lived next to the Tree... I'd take char over anything. lol. So depends on the circumstances too I guess.

[BillM]

I am hoping to have a day like that this summer with the trip up to Attawapiskat...

 

One day I'll get myself a char....one day!

[Moosebunk]

You ever consider char... we could plan that out well in advance together.

[danjang]

King Phillip Comes Over For Grandma Sex

 

Onchoryncus Mykiss in rivers. Nothing better than actively fishing. It appeases my ADD. I have very limited experiences with almost all the other game fishes so this might change.

[mistyriver1]

Great topic.

 

No doubt in my mind.....

 

 

[tambo]

floatfishing on the muddy banks of the nott y for steel, or jiggin whities on frozen simcoe with the vex.......i can't decide

Edited December 9, 2009 by tambo

[ch312]

PERCH

 

 

nothing beats watching a huge school come in on the aqua vu tons of action and one of the best fish to eat...

Edited December 9, 2009 by ch312

[rhare]

GOT KINGS??? I like it when my arms hurt

 

 

 

 

with big steelies being right behind in a close second...

 

[asdve23rveavwa]

Has to be steehead...my reasoning being which fish would I miss the most if I couldn't fish for them!! Nothing more exciting than seeing that initial leap as you set the hook on a fresh "chromer"!!!!!! Also, can fish for them pretty much year round being close to Lake Erie.

[McQ]

I made that choice 58 years ago when my uncle introduced me to St. Lawrence walleye at the age of 8. Been chasing them all over North America since.

 

Earlier in this thread Craig Ritchie said it best - this is one fish where everything works.

 

With the exception of brookies virtually every other specie caught was incidental to fishing for walleye.

[Fishing 24/7]

with this years new lake....... Small Mouth Beast!

 

 

 

 

 

I have to agree with spinnerbaitking... and others.

 

 

best fighters in the world! Lbs/lbs

[anders]

GOT KINGS??? I like it when my arms hurt

 

Exactly.....nothing even comes close

 

 

Great Topic!!!

[ChrisK]

Artic char on a fly rod,or any rod for that matter

[bbog]

Does Smallmouth and Largemouth count as one species? If not, I'd have to go with Crappie.

[Governator]

As lame as it sounds, probably Pike. There is no way I could get stuck fishing with 1 method all year like jigging for walleye or float fishing. With pike you can have fun with topwater, crankbaits, jigs, ice fishing, etc. Also, if you take some time to prepare them they are good eatin' too.

[Kinger]

Absolutely nothing wrong with pike. They are an insanely respectable fish and great table fare like you said.

Perhaps its the ease of catch and not the greatest fighting spirits in a lot of cases that tends to have em' rank lower than more popular gamefish.