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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | What's everyone's goal for 2006?
I'm looking to put 50 fish in the boat, with at least one 50" (gotta aim high).
To improve:
-better short line trolling techniques.
-less dependence on past experiences, more experimentation.
-LESS glider throwing, more back to basics with cranks and topwaters.
And have FUN! |
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Posts: 303
Location: Valentine, NE USA | ...and speaking of aiming high:
I'm hoping to put a Nebraska 50" in our boat. Now THAT'S a goal.
B
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Posts: 5874
| I hope to actually fish for muskies before September this year! My plan is to make the opener on Pewaukee. |
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Posts: 1316
Location: Madison, WI | -Alittle more casting this year rather than trolling
-Get 5 fish on topwaters
-Boat 20 Fish
-Have 100% survival rate
One more
-Net slamr's 50 
Last one:
-Get the wife a muskie!
Edited by Magruter 3/15/2006 10:44 AM
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Posts: 405
| I would like to catch 20 fish with one bigger than my last year best of 47" |
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Posts: 699
Location: Hugo, MN | 50" Looking for Quality not Quantity.
Edited by marine_1 3/15/2006 10:42 AM
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Posts: 16632
Location: The desert | Put at least 10 fish in the boat
Meet a bunch of new people and learn a ton from them
Teach my new girlfirend how to cast and get her on her first fish
Keep my boat floating all season
and most of all HAVE FUN!!
Mike |
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Posts: 2024
| Catch more fish on my "home" water.
More tizzopwater action.
Get my dad a few more fish this year.
Beat my dad's personal best :)... w/ a 50+"
Stay open minded
Bag my first trolling fish. |
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Posts: 3240
Location: Racine, Wi | Teach Slamer how to troll with 10 lines at a time.
Help others get their 1st, second, or biggest.
Have a blast doing it.
Keep working on figuring out the suspendo bite, and actually stick with it casting. (trolling is a different story.)
Figure out how to change my oil without making a mess or stripping the nut that holds it all in.  |
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Posts: 434
Location: searchin for 50 | Try and boat a Wisconsin 50" and to try a couple of new lakes. |
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Posts: 167
Location: Fonda IA | If I can put 10 of my own Iowa fish in my boat,I'll really be happy.
Helping other get their first or their biggest is always thrill in my boat
Learning to make the most of my closest lake(45 min away).Have yet to put one in the boat there.
Learning to stop buying lure so I can afford to buy the gas it takes to get to better fishing places
Dennis Blume |
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Posts: 13688
Location: minocqua, wi. | minnesota 50
canada 50
get all four of my kids a few fish a piece
defend the rhinelander league title and at least be in the hunt at the end
fish in nelson's fancy new ranger
learn more about lake tomahawk spots |
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Posts: 501
Location: Norway | Hope I get to fish for musky...
Michael |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | More time on the water and less time in the hospital than 2005.
Have another great Canadian Trip and net Todd's first 50.
Get Mrs. Theedz her first musky!
Get pictures of Mikie and Mauser holding WI muskies in my boat.
Fish with Mr. Worrall and Slamr for a day.
Have fun each and every day on the water!
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| Continue my every other year Wisco 50" trend.
Get back to fishing alone and with close friends instead of the revolving door at my cabin every weekend.
Get my younger brother back into the game (still my favorite person to fish with)
Concentrate even more on suspendos
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Posts: 94
| Make more time to fish and do a better job learning and fishing the southern lakes near me. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | not too concerned with overall total...but I wouldn't mind beating last years total of 51 releases...
More concerned with bigger fish overall...
Another MN 50"
Canada 50" would be nice if I am lucky enough to fish w/ Mr Hunt some!
Try to get Leif his first 50" on the SEUL.
WI 50"..that would be awesome...
Night fishing LDF and fish with Draeger and Roz in the new 620
Learn some more "sleeper" lake X's in northern WI
Get out and fish with Mark Hintz and Josh on their "Lake X's"
Try to get a few people hooked up with a musky that have never before...
See if I can keep Sled out of my boat as he just sits on his Blackberry all day typing emails to "hotties" ..tehehehej/k bud.
Get a big one with H Train
Camp out more on Johannes Point so I can piss him off.
Learn some lakes with SWorrall
Big cats on film with Sloan
Suspendo's!!!
I could probably keep going but those come to mind...
Edited by MSKY HNR 3/15/2006 12:51 PM
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Posts: 2865
Location: Brookfield, WI | I'd like to catch a couple before I go to AML in August. My wife tells me size doesn't matter, but having something above average would be nice for a change. I would like to get two at AML, one of those on a non-guided day, on a Pacemaker, about 5:30 in the afternoon, right before a thunderstorm. That's the plan anyway.
This fall, I would like to get seven or eight in a couple days fishing with Andrew in Indiana. This seems the most realistic of the three, as I understand by then he'll have learned to troll with ten lines, and I think it's easy to get three or four on at once on those Indiana numbers lakes.
Kevin
Tired O'Plannon
Guinness is good for you. |
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Posts: 670
Location: Otsego, MN | I want to get a 50 in the boat really bad! I keep falling short.
I want to fish some new lakes like Vermillion, and LOTW.
Most of all troll some more and catch a fish trolling, I have been plagued by Pike and Walleyes.
Pssibbly fish some Tournaments |
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Posts: 1764
Location: Ogden, Ut | I'd like to get everyone that fishes w/ me this year at least one opportunity at a fish.
A minimum of 2 tigers 45" or better to visit my Frabill (for my guests; I don't care about me on that one)
Visit some friends this summer and fish w/ them
My first true strain this summer (trip to Mn)
Try to stay in the neighborhood of 25 fish in the boat again this year
Get at least one tiger on a topwater and at least one one on a fly
Get my boys into more fish
Take lots of pictures w/ mountains in the background
Have just a little more fun than I did last year (this one's my loftiest goal of the bunch)
S.
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I'd like to catch some fish. Spend as much time as I can out there chasing them, as family permits.
I'd really like to get my 10-year old daughter into a fish without trolling and telling her, "Here, you take the rod."
Want to spend some extra time on some lure ideas that I have and get almost all of my lures painted before June 1st.
Once school is out, my daughter and I will be spending a lot of time together. I want to take advantage of these years before she starts to dislike her old man, and develops new interests that are cooler than hanging out with me.
Beav |
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Posts: 8776
| I just want to be able to look back on this year and say it was a great year fishing.
I guess if I had to narrow it down?
1. Break 48"
2. Have a 3 fish day
3. Catch the fish that shredded my black/orange bulldawg |
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| Man, my schedule is scrambled eggs. I hope, time willing, to attain these goals:
1. Week in Canada, if time permits
2. a 50", always a goal until reached
3. more local fishing, weather and time permitting |
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Posts: 13688
Location: minocqua, wi. | oh, and i'd like to catch one of the hotties that fall off of nelson's list .... the guys got the mojo going down there in mad-town |
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Posts: 3518
Location: north central wisconsin | Would love to duplicate 2005's size and numbers but with the child I am sure I will not do so for awhile. Besides, the wife gave me the green light last year and I was gone much more than I was around which helped boost them. One goal is to accept that, and it has actually been ok so far during the ice fishing season, and we'll see how the Musky season goes but I think it will be ok. Funny cause I just talked to the wife about the very subject, and we discussed how much I'd get to go out. We agreed that it would be cut in half.........so..... 35 fish in the boat and a couple 50's would be awesome, but at the same time, I would be happy to get half or a fraction of even those numbers and keep the wife and family happy. Another goal, to have our daughter in the boat when the wife cracks her first 50 this summer. She'll be 8 months old and ready to work a net by August........
Other goals: be more consistant on Green Bay in summer, start making the jerk bait i have been toying with, try to jig more, be more patient on 'C' or less waters where I know a big one awaits me....
Edited by Reef Hawg 3/15/2006 5:19 PM
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Location: Des Moines IA | 10 fish would be good
1 of them over 44
To be able to see Jeremy's wife Lisa, and their son Tyler catch their first fish
Perfect the 6 line spread thedude and I started to mess around with last weekend on Webster
And maybe actually get these two crankbait prototypes finished would be nice
Edited by MuskieMike 3/15/2006 6:16 PM
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Posts: 273
| Learn a few new waters
Try not to fish the same spots I always do.
Put 25 in the boat.
Catch a fish worthy of a replica.
Spend as much time on the water as possible.
Fish a tournament
Jeff |
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| Find more people willing to pull on the oars
Get my younger brother back into it
More out of the way lakes (if that's even possible)
Fish with all these crazy mofo's I've met this winter
Loose the knickname 'LLCoolJ"
Overall, if I can spend as much or more time on the water than last year, catch a few fish, avoid injury for once, if all that happens I can trade the 'Croixs for firearms in September with a big grin on my face.
J.Sloan
Badfish Outdoors
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| 1. Beat Peawaukee's butt instead of it beating me.
2. Learn more trolling tricks
3. Get out on Green Bay for the first time and if nothing else learn something for the next trip.
5. Have my seven year-old catch a big fish (heck, even a big carp would make his day) |
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| Put a 52" in the boat from a Minneapolis lake! |
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| 1.Put at least 15 fish in the boat.
2.Learn at least 2 new lakes.
3.Get better with gliders and finess fishing.
4.Spend more time fishing suspended fish in no mans land.
5.Get better at trolling.
6.Help some friends catch their first muskie.
7.And most of all have fun and value the time i get on the water. |
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Posts: 28
Location: Sarell, MN | 1. To learn the Iowa Lake.
2. To boat an Iowa fish.
3. To beat my personal best. |
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| To catch THE one-the big FELLA.
To end this WORLD RECORD crap once and for all! |
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| 1. put 10 in the net
2. 1 tiger
3. learn as much as i can |
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Posts: 2112
Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | 1) Lori and I catch our personal bests this year (not too much of a challenge for her, lol)
2) beat the biggest fish on a Muskynightmare bait (51" Great lakes strain so far)
3) do more trolling.
4) Teach folks that are close to me (namely my niece Maggie) to fish and catch Muskys
5) become a better steward to the sport (tell me this aint as physical as anything you have ever done, slacker). |
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Posts: 1168
| 1. boat a 50 on one of my brother's homemade creations.
2. 50 fish in the boat...been close the past two years.
3. Continue to network
4. Get one on a quickstrike with doughballs (that's still cracking me up)
5. 100+ days on the water
6. "discover" some "new" water
7. Be on the water at least one day for 24 consecutive hours. Gotten to 19 before a storm blew me off, trying to crack 24. |
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Posts: 1438
| 1) Get on the water more this year,
2) Let Norm get Mrs. Theedz her first.
3) 20+ in the boat.
4) Break 50.
5) Kick Slamr's behind on Okauchee.
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Posts: 654
Location: MPLS, MN | Have fun |
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Posts: 1310
Location: Washington, PA | TO Boat a fish on the hillbilly adventure set for April 21st with Slamr. Other than that, not concerned. |
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Posts: 457
Location: Minneconia | 30+ Iowa fish
Break the Iowa state record(came close last year)
Tear Crow lake a new one in June
Scare the crap out of all the locals in Wampumidji, MN again |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | See what the double cow girls are all about this summer???
Spend more time night fishing, less time drinking at the bar after dark.
Get more Video footage and clean up my potty mouth for the camera!!!!!!!!
Get some serious big fish this fall trolling, all on 14" jakes again!
Good luck!
Dusty Carlson
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Posts: 201
Location: Stevens Point | catch 15 WI fish.
catch 44" +.
learn to jig fish.
become more efficient with gliders.
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Posts: 1060
Location: Palm Coast, FL | Unrealistic? Maybe but I plan on putting over 300 fish in the boat between myself and my clients this year. On a great start...39 so far. |
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Posts: 27
Location: Central, IA | 1. Beat my personal best
2. Fish as much as possible
3. Learn to troll
4. Boat 10 fish |
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Posts: 2378
| two words...
Another 50.
That's all I want this year.
Besides that...
net a 50 for PK at Sab Bay
wife's first
cousin's first
get better trolling
dont switch baits so much |
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Posts: 2037
Location: lansing, il | ive been thinkin about this since it was posted...hitting #s are great but im not going to set a season of goals on it..do i want more fish?? yes!!!! do i want bigger fish heck yeah! my goals for 2006 are to have fun. have as much fun as i can whether the fishing is good or bad, have fun with the people i go on trips with and fish with throughout the year. spend as much time as possible on the water, have fun and let the #s fall where they fall!!!!i hope i have the oppertunity to net the biggest fish for everyone i fish with this year! as well as get my son on a big one!!!
have fun, yup thats it! life is short! |
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Posts: 55
Location: Nekoosa, WI | 1.) Boat 100 fish this season. Ended '05 with 77 legals with one at 50". 2.) Get my kids there first legal. My oldest boy who just turned 11 had his share of chances last year, but just could'nt stay connected with 'em. 3.) Have better luck in tournies this year. |
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Posts: 661
Location: Roscoe IL | Have fun fishing & think safety always.
Make new muskie fishing friends.
Fish with different people sometimes.
Fish alone sometimes.
Grill out during the mid day fishing break with friends more. That's fun!!!
Give a friend a pointer that pay's off with a nice fish for them.
Learn new waters
Learn something new about muskie fishing that put's fish in the net.
Catch a 45+ Tiger, take it's picture, let it go & order a replica mount.
And the most important. Respect other boats & anglers at the launches & on the water. The Jet skiers can kiss my @ss!
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Location: Des Moines IA | muskihntr - 3/16/2006 2:16 PM
ive been thinkin about this since it was posted...hitting #s are great but im not going to set a season of goals on it..do i want more fish?? yes!!!! do i want bigger fish heck yeah! my goals for 2006 are to have fun. have as much fun as i can whether the fishing is good or bad, have fun with the people i go on trips with and fish with throughout the year. spend as much time as possible on the water, have fun and let the #s fall where they fall!!!!i hope i have the oppertunity to net the biggest fish for everyone i fish with this year! as well as get my son on a big one!!!
have fun, yup thats it! life is short!
that's the best response I've seen yet ....... |
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Posts: 956
Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | I started this year with the goal of boating at least one muskie in each month. Jan and feb I got skunked so now I'm shooting for i fish in the next 12 consecutive month. Im already on the board for march. What I guess this really is is a goal to get on the water more. Be safe and be good to each other out there. Pesonal best is always a gaol as well. I can deal with that even though it may not be a fifty. Not that I'd mind.
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2006 Muskie Goals?