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| With everyone at different points in their muskie career. What are some of your goals for this season? Here's some of mine:
-Introduce of at least one person to the sport
-Fish at least 6 new bodies of water
-Learn how to use my gps/locator better
-Keep a better fishing log
-Learn the local lakes better
-Get my dad out in the boat more than usual
-Fish with some new guys from the messageboards/club
-Catch 20 muskies
-Catch a PB
-Catch my first 50in
Edited by jkslayer135 3/25/2010 5:34 PM
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Posts: 143
Location: Lake of The Woods | 1. Become a better troller
2. Learn a different section of LOTW
3. Use a suick more often
4. Get some video
5. Fish with Doug Johnson
6. Find more tree's
7. Attempt propwashing
8. Log follows this year
9. Learn how to use suckers
10. Target open water fish
11. Learn more about ciscoe's
12. Fish Eagle lake again!!!
13. Cast more in fall
14. Somehow fish beside Laz
15. Quit eating jars of Nutella on the water!
Edited by Ryan Marlowe 3/25/2010 6:09 PM
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Posts: 709
Location: sun prairie,wi | i just got one....get out and go fishing this year....anybody have room in there boat in the madison area...
tight lines |
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Posts: 1425
Location: St. Lawrence River | Learn night fishing
Try new waters
Be more of a "student of the game"
Start a journal, already have one for ice fishing
Get my friends into the sport more
More hours on the water
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Posts: 1030
Location: APPLETON, WI | Fish more. Period. |
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Posts: 17
Location: Waconia, MN | Learn learn learn. This will be my 2nd season chasing muskies and it has taken over my life. I need to get out and pay attention to details. I would also love to get some people new to muskie fishing to catch a fish or two. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Just have fun... |
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| "With everyone at different points in their muskie career. "
Technically, very few us have a Musky 'career"---which is fishing for money, or at least guiding. For most of us it's just a hobby. This perspective helps keep my goals grounded, which are:
>Enjoy the outdoor experience in general, even if no fish are caught.
>Try to make some of the outings with family members.
>Not buy new lures until the "old" ones catch some fish. So that means learning to be better with the ones I already have.
>Finding a better balance between landing a hooked fish before she gets off vrs. not trying to boat when she's still too hot.
>Fish at least one new body of water.
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Posts: 47
Location: Bonduel WI | 1.Fish more!
2.Keep a fish log with photos
3.Fish 4 new bodies of water
4.Catch a new personal best fish
5.Get a 50 in the boat
Long term goal
-Get a bigger boat boat so that i can fish the Bay of Green Bay |
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Posts: 10
| My goal is to
#1 my biggest enjoyment would be to see my son land his first one.
#2 Introduce a new comer to the sport
#3 Land a that evasive 50 |
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Posts: 4080
Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Pointer,
Are there Sturgeon in Utah? How about Paddle Fish ?
Montana, has some really nice Paddle fish on the Yellowstone, and Utah should have a few of these prehistoric looking fish as well,........Or do they? Utah?
My goals are to fish more with my kids,friends,new friends, and boat more fish per hr fished than ever before.
It also would be nice to win a Tournament for once.
Jerome |
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Location: WI | Fish more and catch more than last year
Fish Green Bay with Dennis Radloff
Get my friends and family on some fish.
Catch more on the figure 8 (only 1 last year)
Hopefully not break more equipment |
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Posts: 393
Location: Hopefully on the water | My first and most important goal to me in "my hobby" is to :
1. Have my son catch his first Muskie (priority number 1).
2. enjoy the time with family and friends fishing
3. catch some fish makes everything easier.
4. watch my son progress and break his personal best over and over through out his life (ok not a season goal but life long goal).
5. break my personal goal.
6. get one big enough to qualify for my standard for a replica for myself.
7. enjoy every chance I get on the water.
Things do change for people throught their "hobby" of musky fishing and come across different goals which is great. This year is about my son. He is 7 and acts like he is in the prime of his life with a 100 muskies under his belt. It is entertaining for me as I never knew that every cast he make he has some sort of fish following of mised a fish on each cast. I love his enthusiaum. Plus it is a great chance for he and I to spend some good time together. We are doing something that I personally can't wait for which is he is going to Canada this yea with my dad, brotherin-law and myself. It will be 3 generations in Canada on a number lake and looking forward to it.
As far as getting someone else involved in the sport. That is something I always enjoy. If the person I am taking out for the first time and they are dating someone or if they are married I joke with them about signing a agreement that I am not responsible for what may happen to the addiction of Musky fishing. It is just a little joke that some of the people and my dad have come up with when getting someone started with the uncurable disease (which is great).
Just get out there and enjoy the time with family and friend or parents. Ther is alwayssomething good to come out of the day that you can laugh about or say that is something I have never seen before. Life is too fast to not enjoy the time. Don't get me wrong a fish in the net, a shot of Blackberry Brandy, and high fives are always great but enjoy life and the time you spend with people you enjoy. |
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| Find the perfect fishing partner:
1. Witty;
2. Kind;
3. Never gets tired;
4. Never gets sick-of-it;
5. Never needs help with backlashes;
6. Good with net;
7. Good at boat control;
8. Looks great in bikini;
9. Always says yes.
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| exactly what cast said...  |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Fish more than last year! |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Top H2O - 3/25/2010 9:02 PM
Pointer,
Are there Sturgeon in Utah? How about Paddle Fish ?
Montana, has some really nice Paddle fish on the Yellowstone, and Utah should have a few of these prehistoric looking fish as well,........Or do they? Utah?
My goals are to fish more with my kids,friends,new friends, and boat more fish per hr fished than ever before.
It also would be nice to win a Tournament for once.
Jerome
Sorry to disappoint you Jerome, but this is not Pointer 
Neither sturgeon nor paddlefish in Utah. Our waters generally drain to the Great Basin; paddlefish are Mississippi drainage and sturgeon (depending upon species) are in drainages heading to the Atlantic or Pacific. But like you say, they're not all that far away.
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Location: Bonduel WI | Cast - 3/26/2010 7:18 AM
Find the perfect fishing partner:
1. Witty;
2. Kind;
3. Never gets tired;
4. Never gets sick-of-it;
5. Never needs help with backlashes;
6. Good with net;
7. Good at boat control;
8. Looks great in bikini;
9. Always says yes.
I love this! I i ever find a woman like this I am flying her to Africa no doubt haha |
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Posts: 2865
Location: Brookfield, WI | I'd like to go musky fishing a couple times this year. Hint, hint. Hello. Testing, Testing. Is this thing on?
Kevin |
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Location: Racine, Wi | We'll get out again Kev. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | MuskyHopeful - 3/26/2010 11:07 AM
I'd like to go musky fishing a couple times this year. Hint, hint. Hello. Testing, Testing. Is this thing on?
Kevin
Kevin, you're close by - maybe you can join me sometime this year
Last year was a great year, no doubt, but when I think back on it, there IS one thing I definitely want to work on. I want to remember that while I do take this sport seriously, when something goes wrong - like a brand new reel seizing up on me at the end of a cast in a high wind and the trolling motor battery is nearly dead - not get mad and curse the world. . . On another note, it's so easy to get caught up in LEARN, LEARN, LEARN, sometimes when the partner says, "Should we crack one open and celebrate quick?", it's okay to do just that - not open the beverage and let it sit on the casting deck until it's warm and undrinkable because you can't bear to miss out on THAT NEXT CAST.
Lastly, 2009 was great to me with numbers and a few biggies mixed in, but I keep telling myself to trade in some quantity for size quality and trophy hunt. I have to get my fix, though, so a little more equality between the two maybe. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Thanks guys. I'll come around begging at some point. My daughter will probably play upward of 20 golf tournaments this summer, so I'm going to be doing a lot of Dadding, but a time or two on the water would be nice. I'll bring the beverages and the sammitches.
Oh, and Joel. I also like catching chrome.
Kevin |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Catch a 40 pounder while Slamr watches on Eagle. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | MuskyHopeful - 3/26/2010 11:33 AM
Oh, and Joel. I also like catching chrome.
Kevin
Roger that! |
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Posts: 829
Location: Maple Grove, MN | My goals this year:
1. Help my two daughters catch their first Muskies.
2. Help my wife catch a decent Muskie.
3. Have at least four people catch their personal best fish in my boat this year. (Been three a year lately.)
4. Personnally catch more than one Muskie on a lure other than a spinner bait.
5. (Related to 4.) Spend at least 10% of fishing time throwing a bait other than a spinner bait.
6. Take more fish pictures. |
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Posts: 402
Location: Eagle River, WI | 1. Put 75 fish in the boat this year.
2. Teach my 2 year old daughter the art of panfishing.
3. Get everyone that fishes with me a shot at their personal best.
4. Have more fun. (If that is even possible). |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | 1) Try and fish more tournaments
2) Fish Lake Michigan for muskie
3) Use more jigs
4) cast more small baits
5) catch a 50"+ fish |
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Posts: 3240
Location: Racine, Wi | A few of my goals are:
1. get my oldest daughter her first musky (she's going to be 4 in June and is pumped to fish more this year).
2. Get my wife and both daughters out in the boat more this year since they are both manageable (as manageable as young girls can be).
3. Get my dad a fish that makes him shake.
4. Get Hopeful out in the boat some more and see if we can keep our streak alive.
Beyond that, hope to have another good year guiding and put lots of smiles on peoples faces. |
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Posts: 633
| Fish more this year.
Get my son a fish in the June Jam Tournament
Get a fish in the June Jam Tournament
Go back, and find that PB that got off 10 feet from the boat last year on vacation.
Target some Tiger lakes, as they are smaller and less busy than the pure strain lakes.
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Location: Brookfield, WI | tuffy1 - 3/26/2010 12:57 PM
A few of my goals are:
1. get my oldest daughter her first musky (she's going to be 4 in June and is pumped to fish more this year).
2. Get my wife and both daughters out in the boat more this year since they are both manageable (as manageable as young girls can be).
3. Get my dad a fish that makes him shake.
4. Get Hopeful out in the boat some more and see if we can keep our streak alive.
Beyond that, hope to have another good year guiding and put lots of smiles on peoples faces. :)
If you have as much fun fishing with your females as I do golfing with mine, you're going to have a hell of a year. Last summer was the best of my life.
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| 1) Catch my first fish
2) Purchase less than 12 baits.
That's about it for this year. I intent to keep a log and learn as much as i can this year. |
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Posts: 402
Location: Eagle River, WI | 1. Put 75 fish in the boat this year.
2. Teach my 2 year old daughter the art of panfishing.
3. Get everyone that fishes with me a shot at their personal best.
4. Have more fun. (If that is even possible). |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Boat a tarpon 80lbs. or bigger |
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Posts: 457
Location: Minneconia | Might as well have posted something like "eat a pound of pretzels without drinking anything"...see thread title
For me:
75 muskies
2 50"+
Attempt to keep scratches on the Ranger to a minimum:P
Help The Marshal to get to 40 fish
and most importantly, make some more good memories with my son, and get him a new PB
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Location: New Hope MN | 1. Get my new fishing buddy Mikey his first fish
2. Get my stuborn, always complaining, never wants to go out father his first (highly doubtful)
3. Catch more fish trolling
4. Catch a ski on a jig (never tried it before)
5. Break my 14yrs PB. |
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Posts: 536
| I would like to catch more fish and bigger fish. Wich for me woul'nt be much. Just plain get better at the sport and having better equipment now and continue the addiction. Having new muskie friends and more lakes to fish! |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | Goals for me are pretty much like others stated:
-Catch a replica worthy muskie (upper 30 pounder or bigger)
-get my bro his PB
-get a couple of my buddies there 1st muskys
-WIN A TOURNAMENT
-and not take it so serious all the time (just most of the time) |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | - take my girlfriend fishing and watch her catch her first musky
- break my PB (46")
- fish open water
- set the hooks better and fight the fish smarter |
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| -Take the family out more.
-Use more sun screen.
-Fish for other species-once in a while.
-Catch and release them
-Except for hopefully ''the one''that will go under the knife.
-Not judge other anglers ''ethics''in any way unless they are breaking the law.
-purchace USA MADE muskie gear when I can to keep jobs on home soil.
-Try trolling to put more numbers in the boat.
-Smile guys open water will be here soon. |
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Location: MN | "Boat a tarpon 80lbs. or bigger" "Might as well have posted something like "eat a pound of pretzels without drinking anything"...see thread title"
I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there!
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| i like the "use more sunscreen" line...I am very guilty of that myself. I just get so tan that i do not need sunscreen but at the same time the UV rays are killing me!! at least I look good!! Need 2 look good out on Tonka...there's so many Nice Girlz out there! |
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| 1. Catch the fish I have been seeing all last year, but couldn't connect with her.
2. Have my son catch his first Muskie!!
3. Fish the river system more.
4. Learn my electronics.
5. Stay off Bone Lake. Love the lake, but after this winter, less fish in the lake !!!
6. Make my Wife understand why I love fishing, and must be on the lake at 5:00 am. Come home at 11:00 am. And then go back out at 8:00 pm. |
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Location: N.FIB | not to get skunked anytime I go out fishing for the day,DAMM,maybe next year......... |
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Location: NW Wisconsin | New to the site...So I plan on gaining some good info from other members
But all in all, fish more |
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Posts: 221
| -Weigh more fish in a cradle
-Put over 100 in the boat
-Put 7 over 35lbs in the boat
-One over 45lbs
-Not jump around as much
-More night fishing
-Stop passing by smaller but still great looking stuff
Darcy Cox |
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Location: Chaska MN. | Get my 11 year old boy his first
beating my personal best (52)
Spend more time out after dark
Get my first on a top water
Enjoy every minute on the water |
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2010 Muskie Season Goals