Award Details

To earn this award, you must catch a wide set of fish species, representing all major groups, in June.

Each listing means "species of fish", so "3 pikes" means "3 different species of fish in the pike family".

Central

• 2 bullheads of any species
• 1 catfish (channel, flathead, or blue)
• 1 carp (common or grass)
• 1 American oddball (Eels, burbots, drums)
• 2 perches (walleye, sauger, or yellow perch)
• 1 pike (muskie, northern pike, chain pickerel, or grass pickerel)
• 6 sunfishes (including crappies, rock basses, warmouths, and fliers)
• 2 black basses
• 1 buffalo
• 1 carpsucker
• 1 native minnow (creek chub or golden shiner)
• 1 gar (shortnose, longnose, spotted)
• 1 bowfin
• 2 salmonids
• 1 mooneye, goldeye, or shad
• 1 sturgeon (shovelnose or lake)
• 4 redhorses (black, golden, silver,
• 2 sucker (white, spotted, blue, northern hog, etc.)
• 1 temperate bass (white, striped, or white perch)

East Coast

• 3 bullheads
• 2 catfishes
• 1 carp (common or grass)
• 1 Eel
• 2 perches (walleye, sauger, or yellow perch)
• 2 pike (muskie, northern pike, chain pickerel, or grass pickerel)
• 5 sunfishes (including crappies, rock basses, warmouths, and fliers)
• 2 black basses
• 1 snakehead, gar, or bowfin
• 2 native large minnows (fallfish, creek chub, bull chub, or golden shiner)
• 2 salmonids
• 2 shad species
• 3 redhorse
• 2 suckers
• 2 temperate bass (white, striped, or white perch)

West Coast

• 2 bullheads/catfishes
• 1 carp (common or grass)
• 1 pikeminnow (any species)
• 4 sunfishes or black basses (all centrarchids)
• 3 other native minnows (besides pikeminnows - hardheads, peamouths, roundtail chubs, sacramento blackfish, tui chubs, etc.)
• 4 salmonids
• 1 tule perch, longfin smelt, or shad (all freshwater species)
• 3 native suckers

The Far North

• 3 Whitefish, Inconnu, or Cisco (any species)
• 3 Pacific Salmon (any species)
• 2 Char (Brookie, Laker, Bull, Dolly, Arctic Char)
• 1 Trout (Rainbow, Brown, or Cutthroat)
• 1 Burbot
• 1 Grayling
• 1 Perch (Walleye, Sauger, or Yellow Perch)
• 1 Pike (non-fartknocker - judge's discretion)
• 1 Sucker
• 1 Sunfish, Hooligan, Smelt, or Blackfish

Europe

• 2 Carp (Common, Grass, Gibel, or Crucian)
• 1 Barbel (any species)
• 2 Salmonid (any species, including trout, salmon, pollan, char, grayling, and whitefishes)
• 1 Burbot, Wels Catfish, or European Eel
• 2 Perches (European Perch or Zander)
• 1 Chub, Orfe, Asp, or Ide
• 1 Dace, Vimba, Mullet, or Bleak
• 1 Roach
• 1 Rudd
• 1 Tench
• 1 Pike
• 1 Majestic Bream (judge's discretion)

After the contest is over, anyone who qualifies can submit a request for this award if they have caught all the required species - awards will be judged and added once the contest is over, in the order they are received.

Thoughts and comments are welcome!