Name that Fish!
February 5, 2007
Okay kiddies, here’s our first installment in a little game we like to call “Name that Fish,” in which you can, by correctly identifying the fish pictured above, win…well…nothing. The lack of prize money and vacation packages aside, it’s still fun (honest). Read on to see if you know what this guy is…
This week’s mystery fish is one that a guide buddy of mine calls the “Brown Turd.”
Though the arctic grayling isn’t a spectacularly gifted fighter, they’re kinda fun anyway. At first glance, the turd reference makes some sense but grayling are actually very cool looking when you take a closer look.
Grayling primarily inhabit cold, clear lakes and streams in Canada and Alaska and are dumb as a bag of hammers — another reason to like ‘em. They’ll eat damn near anything tossed in their direction and are especially fun on light fly gear.
These guys don’t get all that big — 10 to 12 inchers are most common in Alaska, though I’ve caught them, up to about 18 inches. There are some spots in the Northwest Territories where they’ll go 20 plus inches.
The world record arctic grayling weighed 5-pounds, 15 ounces and was taken by Jeanne Branson Grayling on August 16, 1967 in the Katseyedie River, NWT.
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