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The greatest game fish

golden beetle

golden beetle

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I'm interested to hear from you guys, before I go ahead and give my opinion.

What species would you like to target more than any other? And where would you ideally like to fish for them?
 
Trout...any place beautiful and away from the "civilized" world and people..................
Musky the same.....
 
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I'd go with Atlantic salmon in Quebec or New Brunswick. Steelhead would be #2 instead of #1 on my list, only because they seem to be more prevalent than Atlantic salmon.

Big, wild brook trout in Labrador are also up there for me.
 
Stripers on a late October night at the beinging of a nor' easter just when the ocean starts to churn and become angry.
 
I think Atlantic Salmon and Permit are the "golden jewels" of game fish that the sport kind of acknowledges are the most challenging to catch. Difficult to enjoy the idea of 1 fish on a trip being a good result though. For me, targeting big brown trout is what keeps me coming back.
 
I think this a great post GB. I thought about this for years. There are a few fish I would like to try to land on a fly rod. I think it would be thrilling to feel the raw power of a blue or a black Marlin on the end of a 14 weight. One of the things that I would want to do is not while fishing for them, is troll with flies like some captains do. You might as well pull lures. That is not fly fishing. I would want to use teasers to get the fish behind the boat and then sight cast to him.
Another fish that I covet and I have fished for them in Mexico. With no success is a Roster fish. I was disappointed that I did not hook up, perhaps next time. From what I am told they will make an 8 or 9 weight reel scream.
That is my saltwater fish.
I will post my freshwater fish tomorrow.
 
Atlantic salmon way up in northern canada or dorado down in Argentina . Also never caught sea run brookies or browns, Id also love to catch a Dolly Varden or aurora trout just to admire there color and beauty
 
That giant sea run char exclusive to Kamchatka thy chased in eastern rises. Really anything in Kamchatka, I'm more about location than fish and if the the wildest place left on this planet is Kamchatka then I need to be there.
 
Wild Rainbows and Browns, Dry-Flies only on the Mighty MO (Missouri River - Montana)
 
I agree with flyi4. It's the rising brown trout that keeps me coming back too.

If I had to commit to one fish, it would be the reliable, rising brown trout.

I love spey casting, but I like it one week out of the year. Atlantics and permit may be the crowned jewels of fly fishing, but the dry fly placed perfectly over a target is fishing nirvana.

Any fish of the thousand casts loses interest to me after the 1000th cast.

A.rising brown is a good bet to take a well presented fly from a highly skilled angler like myself.

My dream location would be either New Zealand, Patagonia or perhaps Montana. The Delaware is enough for me, really.

I would like to visit Kamchatka, the Bahamas, Labrador, and British Columbia like everyone else here!

The Pacific Coast for steelhead is a dream because it is the most beautiful part of the world to me. I love Washington state, and have had family there that now is in BC.

I love the coniferous rain forests of the northwest coast.

so beautiful!!!!

But the tactics!

I need dries and targets.

So the brown trout is king.

CMM, right on.
 
Great answers and a question I ask myself almost daily. I bet if you ask me again in a week or a month or a decade, I'll likely change my mind. But that is what is so great about fishing. Gun to my head today and only one choice and I'll say bluefin tuna on the fly rod anywhere in the world. Tomorrow that might be a big Florida Keys permit tipping up on the flats to my Del's Merkin, a 30" wild brown on a dry anywhere, or a giant rooster off Baja on a 10 weight. Then there's skating a dry for Atlantic salmon in fabled Canadian waters, stripers on the flats of Monomoy, Albies in the surf off Sandy Hook, and too many more to even contemplate until I've had a few adult beverages to properly do so.
 
For my fresh water fish. There is one fish above any that I would like to hook into. A Grayling in the 6 lb + class. I know is a rare fish at that size but they do exist. Some day in the not to distant future I will book a trip to Mongolia and hopefully I will have the opportunity to land one.
 
My favorite also is catching rising browns during a nice evening hatch on the EB. Hopefully a nice 16" or larger wild brown that I fool matching the hatch.
 
As much as I love trout, I wanna catch a giant tarpon. Hard to hook, even harder to keep hooked.
 
tomfly said:
For my fresh water fish. There is one fish above any that I would like to hook into. A Grayling in the 6 lb + class. I know is a rare fish at that size but they do exist. Some day in the not to distant future I will book a trip to Mongolia and hopefully I will have the opportunity to land one.
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You better call Vlad then. He'll take you out there in a soviet-era tank with bitches in the back. Then he'll deep fry it for you at the end of the day.
 
Trout Nazi said:
As much as I love trout, I wanna catch a giant tarpon. Hard to hook, even harder to keep hooked.
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When I am down is Fla. I catch a lot of lady fish. They are much smaller then a tarpon but spit the fly just like a tarpon . If you can keep them on ,it is good practice for a tarpon.
 
Nice topic. My answer realistically is based on the time of year.

Overall, the idea of catching an ocean run Atlantic on a dry fly, and then another on a perfectly swung wet/spey fly is the shit. I leave for 5 or 6 days of fishing the my one opportunity on Gaspe' on August 19th. Hopefully I can scratch this dream of hooking a couple off my bucket list as I don't see myself shelling out the dough to do it again.

As each fishing species season is starting to wind down, I am already getting excited for the next. Starting in January - I slug out a few days of brutal cold fishing in Jan/Feb hoping to catch a steelhead or two. After every trip I ask myself why I didn't save the days off from work (hate fishing weekends on the SR) for when the tribs start to produce a good run of steelhead in late March and end of April swinging for steelhead. I love fishing for steelhead the 3rd/4th week of March on LO tribs for steelhead. I love swinging for steelhead 3rd/4th week of April, but when that time comes, I am ready for trout.

May and early June I hit the trout streams hard chasing for browns and rainbows on the dry. The Ausable is my preferred fishing water and usually spend a good 10 days up there. End of June the Rapid River in Maine fishing for Landlock Salmon and Native piggy brook trout is where it's at that time of year, which usually is the wind down for fishing. I slow down my fishing once July hits and spend most of my time running. I need to find someone local that fishes for carp, they sound like a blast. My area is known for it's awesome bass fishing, I just can't seem to get into it, stripping line gets real old, real fast.

September comes, historically, I have been jacked for the salmon run on the SR, but over the last couple years it's lost it's luster and will probably only fish it a couple times. I'll probably start to hit the trout streams again in September, early October.

Then comes my favorite time of year, chasing my favorite fish - Steelhead. Come the week after Columbus Day, you might as well call me a Pulaski local through November. There is nothing like hooking a fresh chromer, sorry Mr. Chinook and Coho, you don't compare.....I live for it, I love it, and that is my favorite time of year and favorite fish to stalk. PS - If your lucky enough, you'll grab a nice brown this time of year as well. My famous Brown Trout picture that Trouser Trout loves so much was selected this year for the DSR calender if any of you want to hang a picture of the LyNcH in your office or home.
 
LyNcH said:
My famous Brown Trout picture that Trouser Trout loves so much was selected this year for the DSR calender if any of you want to hang a picture of the LyNcH in your office or home.
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I already have the pic in your signature hanging in my office.

Trout Nazi said:
You better call Vlad then. He'll take you out there in a soviet-era tank with bitches in the back. Then he'll deep fry it for you at the end of the day.
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This is hilarious and also almost-certainly the truth.

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED TAIMEN??

I'm gonna have to go with the Taimen in Mongolia.
 
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