If You Could Create Your Own Fish

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Caprtunarooster?

That'd be kinda fun.

 

[ifsteve]

It already exists. Well almost. Tarpon but in a perfect world they'd eat more often.....lol

 

[kmudgn]

My design fish would only take dry flies.

 

[Pigs]

Any trout/char 16" or bigger that would take a dry fly consistently...

Agreed. My favorite place on earth is a wilderness lake that you cast terrestrial patterns at cruising browns, some over two feet long….the anticipation of take or rejection is too much!

 

[adamcu280]

Freshwater: Wild, early summer-run Skamania strain steelhead. Only way to improve on that is have more of them (or just have them again).

Why?

> they take dry and wet flies
> sight fishing in fast boulder strewn water
> mint bright, gorgeous fish
> fight with jumps and blistering speed
> closest thing in freshwater to pelagic saltwater speedsters (which of course they are that too) but in beautiful fly water stream environments

Sailwater: I like @adamcu280 idea for a wahoo variant. A species that is probably top 3 on my bucket list. That or a Dorado variant, although not sure what to improve. They come damn close to the perfect saltwater fly rod fish. Aggressive fly eaters, often sight fished. Fight with Jumps and high speed runs. Mind-blowing colors. And factoring in I like to eat fish, tasty and a prolific, sustainable resource.

I’d take a dorado that tastes like wahoo. Not that dorado aren’t tasty but wahoo is my favorite.

 

[RCF]

Agreed. My favorite place on earth is a wilderness lake or thin blue line that you cast terrestrial patterns at cruising browns, some over two feet long….the anticipation of take or rejection is too much!

Fixed it for you...

 

[clarkman]

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nailed it!

 

[Herkileez]

A steelhead with lower standards....but then again...It wouldn't be steelheading...