Nowadays? Brim (aka panfish) and crappie.

Back in the day.... stalking up a little crick in April to toss a trout egg sac in front of the nose of a rainbow trout. I can still smell those days. Nothing better.

I can see where trout fishing in a crick would be a blast. I usually spend way too much time fishing creek chubs before going catfishing simply because im having too much fun.

Casting paddle tails against a salt marsh sod bank for striped bass and speckled trout

52 - that looks like one of our neighbors.

like all fishing best time is first 2 hours of day light watching sun come up and last to 2 hours watching sun go down most peacefull times of the day most of the time

Brook trout fishing remote streams and ponds. And lake trolling leadline for salmon and trout.

Jet boat up river to salmon spawning area in the deep pools and use a single gold hook and salmon egg and catch and release greyling one after another on ultra light fly rod until your arms hurt!

Anything to fill the freezer or carp fishing for me. Easy, fun, cheap, put up a good fight, and I get trapping bait as a bonus.

It would take up several pages to list my favorites. I'll put together an abbreviated list, with ranking number.

1. mountain whitefish on wet flies; 4-weight rod. St. Joe River headwaters, ID
1. halibut long-lining; Prince William Sound, AK
1. catfish at night on Snake River, ID
1. sand sharks off the jetty at La Push, WA
1. Yelloweye Rockfish, Sitka Sound, AK
1. Cutthroat on 4-wt. rod, Panther Creek, ID
1. mud-bug traps, Lower Coeur d'Alene River, ID
1. Rod-and-reel monster burbot, Tanana River, AK
1. Dip-netting Copper River sockeye, Chitina, AK
1. winter perch, Cascade Reservoir, ID
1. 24" grayling on dry flies, Gulkana River, AK

Agreed! Especially the sunrise.