Bucket List Fish

[MOPanfisher]

Guess I am not very good at the bucket list thing, never really thought about it much.  Usually I just vow to fish more this year, the more good intentions I have it seems the less I actually get to fish.  But if I were to make a bucket list, I would like to catch a halibut, a goliath grouper, and a shark.  But more likely I will be the guy with a 5 gallon bucket with a couple walleye, or some crappie, white bass or bluegill, reading posts of folks who go catch cool fish.  Also weirdly I would like to catch a snake head somewhere.

[Johnsfolly]

8 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Guess I am not very good at the bucket list thing, never really thought about it much.  Usually I just vow to fish more this year, the more good intentions I have it seems the less I actually get to fish.  But if I were to make a bucket list, I would like to catch a halibut, a goliath grouper, and a shark.  But more likely I will be the guy with a 5 gallon bucket with a couple walleye, or some crappie, white bass or bluegill, reading posts of folks who go catch cool fish.  Also weirdly I would like to catch a snake head somewhere.

I know where those snakeheads are in Maryland☺. They are supposed to be excellent eating fish.

[BilletHead]

30 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Guess I am not very good at the bucket list thing, never really thought about it much.  Usually I just vow to fish more this year, the more good intentions I have it seems the less I actually get to fish.  But if I were to make a bucket list, I would like to catch a halibut, a goliath grouper, and a shark.  But more likely I will be the guy with a 5 gallon bucket with a couple walleye, or some crappie, white bass or bluegill, reading posts of folks who go catch cool fish.  Also weirdly I would like to catch a snake head somewhere.

       I am with you Mopanfisher although the more fish I catch out West the more I want to try for. We all have a wish list and I am included. The high country draws the BilletHeads and ever since we started trying to go native fish in native areas the more fun we seem to have. We do not lack but three or four cutthroat to call the North America slam completed. While we are still able and before we get to the point where we are not able I think we will continue to chip away at that. since we have done what we have guideless we would like to finish it that way. if we happen to get that done who knows what will be next. Some other fish would be cost prohibitive. 

  BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

I'm not one of those guys that can go somewhere and do something once....and be happy.  If I truly enjoyed it then I'd get completely ate up with it and have to move there, so Tarpon, Redfish, and high country Trout are out of the question.  I don't even want to experience it because it would be like cheating on my wife.  I'm afraid I'd fall in love and loose everything I have worked so hard for up until now.

My bucket list is just simply more days doing what I already do within a few hours of home.  Being a tourist doesn't appeal to me at all.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Being a tourist doesn't appeal to me at all.

I'm getting more like that all the time.

[MoCarp]

17 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

I know where those snakeheads are in Maryland☺. They are supposed to be excellent eating fish.

here you go...weird but intimidating fish

[Flysmallie]

10 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm not one of those guys that can go somewhere and do something once....and be happy.  If I truly enjoyed it then I'd get completely ate up with it and have to move there, so Tarpon, Redfish, and high country Trout are out of the question.  I don't even want to experience it because it would be like cheating on my wife.  I'm afraid I'd fall in love and loose everything I have worked so hard for up until now.

My bucket list is just simply more days doing what I already do within a few hours of home.  Being a tourist doesn't appeal to me at all.  

Tarpon and Redfish fisherman need boat mechanics too. 

[fishinwrench]

I hate working on engines that have been exposed to saltwater.  I trained with a bunch of guys from the coast and they were way too cranky for their age, and all looked 20 years older than they really were.    

[Johnsfolly]

3 hours ago, MoCarp said:

here you go...weird but intimidating fish

Here's why they are called snakeheads (only one that I have caught so far)

[Al Agnew]

I've been fortunate enough to have caught a lot of those freshwater fish that are on some of your bucket lists.  In fact, I've caught pretty much all the available trout in North America except for golden trout, a few varieties of cutthroat, bull trout, and the really rare ones like Mexican trout.  I've caught arctic char, dolly varden, grayling...

I've also caught all the Pacific salmon, but not Atlantic salmon, all the pike species...

And I have no interest whatsoever in saltwater fish.  I'm a freshwater angler who loves rivers, pure and simple.

So, the only fish I can think of that would still be on my bucket list is peacock bass, and the species of black bass I haven't yet caught (I've caught the three main species plus redeye bass).