Fishing Goals For 2015

[Ham]

I'll come up with all kinds of crazy ideas as the year rolls along, but for right now I'm planning on keeping things simple. I'll try to keep the crazy ideas to myself as much as possible.

1) Fish with my Dad

2) Fish in salt waterat least once.

3) Catch fish in two new states and at least 5 states all together.

4) catch more different species of fish than I did last year.

I'll keep up with the number of fish I catch, but I don't have a target number that I'm trying to reach. I didn't have a target number for 2014 and I caught more fish than ever before. Maybe that will happen again, but likely not. I caught a pile of fish in 2014.

Thanks to my fishing friends new and old for the fun you helped bring to my life this year. I enjoyed it and I appreciate you.

Happy New Year! I hope you are blessed mightily in 2015.

[Old plug]

I wpuld love to fish Africa like a friend of mine that goes down there for a church every couple of year at the risk of life and limb to deliver medical supplies. He has caught some big strange toothy fish. The one I would like to catch mostly is a Nile Perch. I will nevervmake it gut it is a hope.

[MeatintheFreezer]

I'll come up with all kinds of crazy ideas as the year rolls along, but for right now I'm planning on keeping things simple. I'll try to keep the crazy ideas to myself as much as possible.

1) Fish with my Dad

2) Fish in salt waterat least once.

3) Catch fish in two new states and at least 5 states all together.

4) catch more different species of fish than I did last year.

Nice list. The #1 is the most important one by a long shot, don't let that one fall through the cracks.

My 2015 fishing goals mostly revolve around a family trip to Alaska coming up this summer, but here it is:

1) Remember fishing with my dad

2) Catch a halibut > 150 pounds

3) Catch salmon in both salt water & fresh water in the same day

4) Catch ling cod >35 pound

4A) Show photo to my buddies & convince them it is a giant walleye

(back to Missouri)

5) Take my son striper fishing (and catch a few)

Happy New Year everyone & tight lines!

[Guest]

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[Al Agnew]

I'm not setting any goals. Looks like it might be another year where I don't get to fish as much as I'd like...but I can't complain. This past year it was mainly because we were consumed with a remodel of the Montana house, but this coming year, it will be because we'll be in Australia and New Zealand for a month, and then will float the entire Grand Canyon later on in the year. I'll trade some serious fishing for those two things!

[Guest]

I would be happy if I can go fishing once a week, next year.

Learning new techniques & lures is always on the plate.

I want a personal best smallmouth & I know where they live.

Most of all, I want to teach my 3 year old son how to catch fish with his snoopy pole.

[fishinwrench]

I always begin the year as a Trout fisherman until late February. Then my focus turns to Crappie and big flyrod Bluegill for several weeks, with a few outings devoted to LM with gear.

When the first warm rainstorms start moving in I'll not be able to think about ANYTHING (work, sex and food included) but flyfishing for White bass. By the time the White run is over I usually have a lot of work to get caught up on and my thoughts start migrating towards throwing bass bugs at shallow stumps for LM with just enough gear fishing and Catfishing mixed in to make sure I haven't forgetten how to do it.

By the first of July I'll have transformed into a river Smallie guy and no other type of fishing scratches the itch for me until sometime in October when the rivers get too cold to wet-wade.

Then it's back to the stillwater flats for LM and awaiting the first few cooling storms that trigger the White bass return to the shallows.

Then... it starts all over again

[bs1827]

I'm not setting any goals. Looks like it might be another year where I don't get to fish as much as I'd like...but I can't complain. This past year it was mainly because we were consumed with a remodel of the Montana house, but this coming year, it will be because we'll be in Australia and New Zealand for a month, and then will float the entire Grand Canyon later on in the year. I'll trade some serious fishing for those two things!

I can't wait to see pictures/hear stories about all of those trips! Keep us updated!

My goals are as follows:

-Explore new water

-Tie/fish new smallmouth patterns

-Do some limb lining/jug lining for cats

-Figure out how to catch river walleye

[snagged in outlet 3]

I think I'm going to get another pond prowler so I can fish more often.

2-5 hour drives to trout fish kind of limit how many times I can go.

I used to take a bunch of day trips bass fishing within an hour of the house until the guy I used to go with moved to LOZ.

I miss those trips a lot.

Pete

[fishinwrench]

I know what ya mean, Pete. I enjoy fishing close to home way more than I do traveling. "Exploring new water" doesn't appeal to me unless I know I can stay there long enough to get it all figured out, or if my local waters are just not fishing well.

It has been my experience though that if my local waters aren't fishing well then odds are the stuff 3-4 hours away aren't either.