The Rogue Ichthyologist: Diversity is Grand

Picture from: https://www.nps.gov/dino/learn/nature/fish.htm

Utah Fisherman can often be found regaling the story of the 24 inch hook jawed brown, or that very special arctic grayling that they had to travel and hike to get to.  The stories you do not here about is the 6 foot pikeminnow that dodged through Green river rapids before you could land it. Gene Bittler reports from long past "I pitched that green frog out there and this (Colorado pikeminnow) hit it, just about straight across, and he ran down that fast water, riffles, and took out about 200 feet of line before I turned him around," In addition he reported the many steaks cut off this beast to supply many meals for his family. Fishing has changed in Utah and the way you fish is as diverse as the many species that do and still exist. 

Utah fish species list:

ARCTIC GRAYLING THYMALLUS ARCTICUS BEAR LAKE SCULPIN COTTUS EXTENSUS BEAR LAKE WHITEFISH PROSOPIUM ABYSSICOLA BLACK BULLHEAD AMEIURUS MELAS BLACK CRAPPIE POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS BLUEGILL LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS BLUEHEAD SUCKER CATOSTOMUS DISCOBOLUS BONNEVILLE CISCO PROSOPIUM GEMMIFER BONNEVILLE CUTTHROAT TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII UTAH BONNEVILLE WHITEFISH PROSOPIUM SPILONOTUS BONYTAIL GILA ELEGANS BRASSY MINNOW HYBOGNATHUS HANKINSONI BROOK STICKLEBACK CULAEA INCONSTANS BROOK TROUT SALVELINUS FONTINALIS BROWN TROUT SALMO TRUTTA BURBOT LOTA LOTA CHANNEL CATFISH ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS COLORADO PIKEMINNOW PTYCHOCHEILUS LUCIUS COLORADO RIVER CUTTHROAT TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII PLEURITICUS COMMON CARP CYPRINUS CARPIO CREEK CHUB SEMOTILUS ATROMACULATUS DESERT SUCKER CATOSTOMUS CLARKII EMERALD SHINER NOTROPIS ATHERINOIDES FATHEAD MINNOW PIMEPHALES PROMELAS FLANNELMOUTH SUCKER CATOSTOMUS LATIPINNIS GIZZARD SHAD DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM GOLDEN SHINER NOTEMIGONUS CRYSOLEUCAS GOLDEN TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS AGUABONITA GOLDFISH CARASSIUS AURATUS GRASS CARP CTENOPHARYNGODON IDELLA GREEN SUNFISH LEPOMIS CYANELLUS HUMPBACK CHUB GILA CYPHA JAGUAR GUAPOTE CICHLASOMA MANAGUENSE JUNE SUCKER CHASMISTES LIORUS LAHONTAN CUTTHROAT TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII HENSHAWI LAKE TROUT SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH LARGEMOUTH BASS MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES LEAST CHUB IOTICHTHYS PHLEGETHONTIS LEATHERSIDE CHUB GILA COPEI LOGPERCH PERCINA CAPRODES LONGNOSE DACE RHINICHTHYS CATARACTAE MOTTLED SCULPIN COTTUS BAIRDII MOUNTAIN SUCKER CATOSTOMUS PLATYRHYNCHUS MOUNTAIN WHITEFISH PROSOPIUM WILLIAMSONI NORTHERN PIKE ESOX LUCIUS PAIUTE SCULPIN COTTUS BELDINGII PLAINS KILLIFISH FUNDULUS ZEBRINUS PLAINS MINNOW HYBOGNATHUS PLACITUS PUMPKINSEED LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS RAINBOW TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS RAINWATER KILLIFISH LUCANIA PARVA RAZORBACK SUCKER XYRAUCHEN TEXANUS RED SHINER CYPRINELLA LUTRENSIS REDSIDE SHINER RICHARDSONIUS BALTEATUS ROUNDTAIL CHUB GILA ROBUSTA SACRAMENTO PERCH ARCHOPLITES INTERRUPTUS SAND SHINER NOTROPIS STRAMINEUS SMALLMOUTH BASS MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU SOCKEYE SALMON (KOKANEE) ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA SPECKLED DACE RHINICHTHYS OSCULUS SPLAKE SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH X S. FONTINALIS SPOTTAIL SHINER NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS STRIPED BASS MORONE SAXATILIS THREADFIN SHAD DOROSOMA PETENENSE TIGER MUSKIE ESOX LUCIUS X E. MASQUINONGY TIGER TROUT SALMO TRUTTA X SALVELINUS FONTINALIS TROUT-PERCH PERCOPSIS OMISCOMAYCUS UTAH CHUB GILA ATRARIA UTAH LAKE SCULPIN COTTUS ECHINATUS UTAH SUCKER CATOSTOMUS ARDENS VIRGIN CHUB GILA SEMINUDA VIRGIN SPINEDACE LEPIDOMEDA MOLLISPINIS WALLEYE SANDER VITREUS WESTERN MOSQUITOFISH GAMBUSIA AFFINIS WHITE BASS MORONE CHRYSOPS WHITE CRAPPIE POMOXIS ANNULARIS WHITE SUCKER CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONII WIPER MORONE CHRYSOPS X M. SAXTILIS WOUNDFIN PLAGOPTERUS ARGENTISSIMUS YELLOW BULLHEAD AMEIURUS NATALIS YELLOW PERCH PERCA FLAVESCENS YELLOWSTONE CUTTHROAT TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII BOUVIERI

From: https://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/SearchSelection.asp?Group=OSTEICHTHYES&Species=VERT

Including scooping up a few Western Mosquitofish my list is fairly extensive. However,  when I look at this list I can see that my work is long but finished.