Bluegill with my little one. Pike and pickerel are also fun for me but they love robbing me of my hardbaits.

Inshore Redfish. It's like bass fishing on steroids. 

Freshwater:

Trout of all kinds.  Landlocked Salmon (incredible runs and jumps).  Panfish on ultralight fly fishing gear.

 

Saltwater (on the flyrod):

Inshore stripers.  Big bluefish. Dorado (Mahi mahi). 

 

Tight lines and Merry Christmas,

Bob

In the freshwater variety, the peacock bass no doubt. Very tough mofo's

Any thing in saltwater except hard heads!

Sac au lait to eat

 

Rare is the crappie gifted by 'Catch-&-Release' 

 

Roger

Reds and as of today snook. Those things are fun and feisty as heck.

stripers and bluefish for saltwater, and catfish, carp, and larger pickerel for freshwater. I do like fishing for panfish like croakers and kingfish from the surf. It's relaxing drinking some ice cold beer in the heat of summer waiting for the bite.

Yellow perch for me.  I love them for a bunch of reasons.  First of all, they bite really well on slow, bottom, finesse presentations most of the time.  They can bite aggressively but more often, they're finicky and bite softly.  They're as beautiful as any fish out there and they taste fantastic.  They remind me a lot of a smaller and more numerous walleye, which would probably be my next favorite.

 

 

 

Yellow perch are always there when ice fishing, some days they prevent the skunk.

I would have to say that pike is my favorite species to target. The bigger ones hit like a freight train.

bowfin are pretty fun to catch!

Crappie, There just so fun to catch!

I want to revise my post to anything that is biting!

The redfish.

 

Love hitting the Louisiana marsh and fishing for redfish.

 

Nothing like it in the world.

Stripers are my #2 favorite to catch

Walleye

1a. Bluegills

1b. Pike

 

Bluegills because they are abundant, easy to catch, and are my favorite fish to eat.

 

Pike because they hit and fight hard, are often willing biters on moving baits when bass are not, we have good numbers of them around here, and big ones are just plain fun on bass gear.

Besides being the fastest fish in freshwater, steelhead are berserk!

 

Male brown carp in  pre spawning period. They can pass any smallmouth Bass when the hook stings them.

 

Had a 18" take the corn meant for trout. Saw the gold flash & that guy did 100' in 3 seconds. I forgot to put any pressure on him . He reaches the shallows. Turns around and zips by even faster headed for the main river outlet.  I thought I had a hatchery breeder on. I realize that so far I have not taken up any slack Line as he reaches the river mouth I tip the rod WAY backwards to absorb the coming shock of the line. Sure enough I see the the water fly off the line as is suddenly tightens..

 

I thanked that speed burner for such a fantastic run. Carefully unhooked & released him.

channel catfish. at my reservoir there are consistent catches of 8 pounders even in the winter.

I like Stripers and hybrids for the fight, crappie and bluegill for a fish fry, but for sheer excitement, I'll target big flatheads. 

 

Tom

i'd have to say it's probably fishing the small mountain creeks for trout both in western NC and in Montana.  lots of nature, lots of scenery and you really have to sneak up on the good spots.

Aside from that, i really enjoy just catching a ton of bluegill.  one particular lake in western NC is just loaded with them up to 2 or 3 pounders.  you will tire yourself out catching them there, tons of fun with kids, family or newcomers.

I have only caught four diferent speices of fish (largemouth, trout, crappie, chinooks), and other than bass my favorite would have to be rainbows. I caught a 6.5 pounder out of a small lake on a fly rod, thats gotta be the most fun I've ever had with a fish.

I like Stripers and hybrids for the fight, crappie and bluegill for a fish fry, but for sheer excitement, I'll target big flatheads. 

 

Tom

I like stripers for a fish-grill

Good ole' Florida sunshine bass. They are a hybrid cross between a striper and white bass produced by the state of Florida and dumped into lakes and rivers by the millions- about 2,000,000 per year here. They fight like crazy and are good eatin' too.