Just curious about how many of you are strictly fly fishing for trout for example, or if you dabble in other types of fishing as well. Here's an example:

In the last year, here are the types of fish i've hooked and the various methods used:

Locations:
Rivers and streams, ponds, lakes (lowland, and alpine), puget sound, gulf of mexico

Types of fishing:
Trolling, fly fishing (dry, wet, nymph), still fishing, various baits, jigs, plugs, spoons, spinners
Fly fishing for steelhead and salmon in rivers
Fly fishing for chum in the salt
Bobber and jig for salmon/steelhead
Drift fishing for salmon/steelhead
Spoons/spinners for salmon steelhead
I'll stop there.

Types of fish: (? means I don't recall for sure if I caught one this year, but I usually do)
Trout/char (rainbow, cutthroat, brown?, brookie, dolly/bull)
Salmon/Steelhead (Summer and Winter steelies, silvers, kings, pinks, chum)
Spiny Rays (sm/lm bass, blue gill, perch, crappie?)
Whitefish
Catfish?
Dogfish (not you andy)
Rat fish
greenling
bull head / sculpin
flounder / sole
Ling Cod?
Red fish
Drum
Speckeled Trout
Alligator Gar?

My all time favorites - wading small rivers with my fly rod or spinning rod looking for eager trout. Next would be fishing (fly, hardware, jigs) for summer steelies. And finally this last year I had a blast catching so many salmon out of local rivers on my spinning and fly gear.

How about the rest of you?
(not looking for numbers of fish or bragging, just interested in how diverse or not your fishing is...)

Fly fishing only and loving it.

90% fly fish.
Also hit kokanee with pop gear / wedding ring / maggot.
Bait (not PB) for a few crappie & perch.
Plugs for bass.

Fly fish for me.

Micro Brew. Do you carry your maggots in your mouth to keep them warm? HA HA Jim S. :p

Not any more.... But it does keep them warm & active!

plus they can eat away any dead and rotting flesh you may have in your mouth. Really cuts down on the bad breath

Mainly bait fisher.

Powerbait & worms, sometimes lures for trout and panfish.

Sturgeon- usually smelt or shrimp ( a note from a baiter - another good bait for sturgeon I have found, is steak, a little piece on the hook and they love it, once the blood leaches out then rebait).

fly and sometimes bait for trout, float/jig and drift for salmon steelhead, i used to use bait alot for salmon/steelhead but more and more every day i find my self not using it.

Tyler

Take a stab guess. Yup, 100% flies. But only because I haven't got around to
fishing for some of the more exotic species yet. I know you can catch nearly
everything on flies,but at certain depths and certain waters & conditions, and
for certain species it ain't a real pracitcal, effective approach.
Everything has it's place.......except powerbait that is.

During the summer I spend 80% of my fishing time fly and lite-spin fishing the lakes, creeks and rivers around Mt. St. Helens for trout. The other 20% is made up of smallmouth bass, crappie and summer steely fishing in and around the Columbia.

90% Flyfishing/tying
10% Gear troller

Used to be 100% flies/tying but, the ol' lady complained about the $$$. So I bought a boat and tricked it out. Gives her more to b**** about and me more of an excuse to get out fish!

Downriggin'

I own up to being like Ivory Soap... only 99.46% pure for fly fishing. Occasional forays out with either powerbait or lures like the Dick Nite.

Now if baiters ever tried catching trout on fly rods they might be in for a surprise. Fish fight better on lighter rods. It makes the 10-13 inch planters seem bigger or friskier than they really are.

For those who are curious, I used a 1 weight last year on a remote lake up in BC. Far enough back where we spotted 8 bears and one moose on the drive in.