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| This is a fun topic that comes up every year.
Here are mine:
1. Fish with Suicks until I actually catch a fish on one. Don't ask me why, but I have never been able to catch fish on Suicks.
2. Catch a musky on a hot dog. Why: Why not?
3. Learn to cast over my left shoulder so I don't have to switch hands
4. Figure out all the different ways to weight and work a Hardhead
5. Spend more time on new waters
6. Catch a nice hybrid
7. Figure out why my suckers die when everyone else in the boat can keep one alive all day
8. Catch a musky on a #5 Mepps.
9. Learn the finer points of fishing with spinnerbaits
10. Catch a fish out in the abyss
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Location: Appleton, WI | The year of 2014 is going to be learning how to fish suspended fish. Also it is not to spend so much on lures and use the ones I have that have never touched the water. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | Fish some of the larger lakes in the area
Be in the boat for a 50" |
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Location: Quebec, Canada | Catch a musky on a pounder or a monster medussa.
Catch a musky on a boundy.
Use my new big dawg in proportion of the cost.
Edited by Drakl 2/11/2014 5:50 PM
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Location: Contrarian Island | 55"er...
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Location: S.W. WI | Catch one on a Bondy.
A few more on TinHeads.
Fish (and catch!) on a new water I've been thinking on for a looooong while.
-Jon
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| 45"+ on my 10wt. keep saying I'm gonna fly-fish for them more and never do...this is the year. |
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Location: Illinois | There is a fish that lives in a small area. It's hell to get to and difficult to fish, but this fish has been there 3 years in a row. I had her hooked two years ago and she wrapped me around a stump. Last year she played with me 3 different times but wouldn't eat. It would be easily my PB, and it's certainly personal at this point. I estimate I have spent 50 hours chasing her. Hope she wasn't caught and kept. That is my only goal. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Actually Win a Muskie Tournament.
Like BNelson,... Boat a 55"Muskie.
Fish more hours this season.
Try to figure out this HB 1198.
Go back to the basics more often. |
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | 1.) Make new acquaintances and friends on the Muskie waters I fish and through muskie fishing.
2.) Beat my Missouri personal best.
3.) Spend a week at Cass Lake, MN. and beat my MN. personal best.
4.) Nag the Missouri DNR to look at Muskie lakes to stock closer to Kansas City when the new management program begins in 2015.
Ron
Edited by rjhyland 2/11/2014 6:19 PM
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| To have fun and catch some fish. |
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Location: Lake St. Clair | 1. Beat last years total fish number
2. Beat last years number of fish over 50
3. Catch a 50 instead of always netting them! haha
4. Continue to understand LSC. After 2 full seasons of only muskie fishing, we have come a long way
5. Get better at understanding seasonal patterns
6. Meet some new people and fish with some new people!
7. GET OUT AND BEAT EM UP!
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Posts: 300
| My goals are as always, learn as much as possible, break my PB, continue to learn the waters my wife and I fish and have fun. I am also hoping to put more fish in the boat than last season. Hopefully some of them will be on tactics I don't utilize enough. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Learn the new lakes I moved near and dominate them.
Catch a 55
Maybe not be such a loner! |
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Posts: 2026
| Not break a rod on the hookset, still landed it, luckily.
Not break the reel handle on a hookset, lost that one.
Convince Mother Nature to not send 30 mph winds for the limited time I am able to fish. |
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Location: Illinois | 1. Get my boy and his friends in my boat more and away from TV and video games!!
2. Fish more! At least 30 times in my boat this season!
3. Catch a decent fish on my home water in Podunk Illinois!
4. Keep the Team Jerklip Big Fish Trophy in my garage!!!
5. Boat that elusive 50 in MN this year!
6. Keep hands hook free all year long!
7. Learn new baits and have more fun!!!
8. Keep my wife happy!(this one will probably be the hardest)
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Catch big bluegills for the Worrall Cabin fish fry and post the images during the Spring Bay Summer Outing just to annoy some MuskieFIRST 'guests'. 
Stand by...the rest of my 2014 goal is all about this place. It's going to be cool.
Oh, and I want to Muskie fish as much as last year. |
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| BNelson - 2/11/2014 5:52 PM
55"er...
oh and to not fall out of the boat. ;-)
*Sploosh!* "oh, sh*t, Nelson's in the lake... and I got a fish! NOW what do I do?!"
After 40 years fishing, and a decade chasing these stupid muskies, that is still one of the funniest things I have ever experienced on the water!
I am laughing so hard I've got tears in my eyes!
Edited by esoxaddict 2/11/2014 7:24 PM
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Location: Wisconsin | esoxaddict - 2/11/2014 7:19 PM
BNelson - 2/11/2014 5:52 PM
55"er...
oh and to not fall out of the boat. ;-)
*Sploosh!* "oh, sh*t, there goes Nelson... and I got a fish! NOW what do I do?!"
After over 40 years fishing, and a decade chasing these stupid muskies, that is still one of the funniest things I have ever experienced on the water!
Ok, I have heard this referenced many times, but don't know the whole story. So, how about sharing, it sounds soooo funny. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | 1. Fish more.
2. Fish smarter
3. Fish harder
4. Catch new Iowa state record.
5. Have fun doing 1-3...just in case #4 doesn't work out. |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Fish more.
Catch more.
Think less.
Do more. |
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Posts: 247
Location: Grand Marais, MN | wont be able to fish muskies for probably 3 years, so my goal is to figure out some lake michigan stuff here in milwaukee |
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| See ice out here by June opener. |
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Posts: 246
| Fish more, to busy last two years.Have a 40 and 50# er.Time for a fall fat 60#er is my goal till I die!
Gmanny |
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| It's a long story, Clammer. I wish I could find the thread from back then. I'll try to shorten it.
This was maybe 2006 or 2007? I was a few years into musky fishing, pretty hardcore about the whole deal. I had been out something like 15 days without as much as a follow. Cave Run, Northern WI, Central WI, Southern WI, IL... And I was MAD. All my life, if there was a fish, I was the guy who would catch it. Muskies? No deal. So Brad agreed to take me out fishing one night on the Yahara Chain. Moved a few fish, caught a 36 and a 41 that night. I don't remember at what point this happened, but I hooked a fish. Not a great fish in hindsight, but back then this was a choir-of-angels-singing kind of moment... So I've got this fish. And I'm waiting for Nelson to get the net, because the fish is DONE. It's just sitting there like "okay, net me.." I'm watching the fish. Tunnel vision. All of a sudden I hear this giant splash. I look back, and Nelson's in the lake. I start to panic, because I've never hand landed a fish. I don't know if Brad can swim, and he's overboard. I don't know whether to sh*t or go blind! Meanwhile, Summer (Brad's dog) is sitting there between us looking at me, and Brad, and me, and Brad like "what are you morons DOING?!" I've got a guy in the lake. That's kind of an emergency. I also got a fish. That's kind of an emergency, too. Fish? Nelson? Fish? Nelson?
As it turned out, Nellie was able to climb back in the boat and net the fish.
I found out later what happened: When he went to grab the net (in total shock that I had actually caught a fish), he knocked one of his rods overboard. (As many of you know, rods float, but not for very long) In an attempt to grab the rod and keep it from sinking, he reached out just a bit too far, and gravity took care of the rest. Somehow, and I will never understand how, Brad managed to survive this whole experience without ever getting his hair wet. How the hell do you go head first out of the boat and not get your hair wet?? In any case, that was my slump buster. After that day, I never went more than a few days on the water without a fish in the net. I've had some great laughs since then, but that one still takes the cake.
Edited by esoxaddict 2/11/2014 7:55 PM
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| catch my first 50 on LOTW this summer so i can ring Frank's bell at the bay store camp |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Did he save the rod?
Lot of guys looking for a 55 so I'll look for a 56 even tho my current PB is 54.
My plan would be to spend at least one day a week on the Larry from June 15 till Dec 15 weather permitting also spend some time casting where trollers don't go.
Edited by horsehunter 2/11/2014 8:16 PM
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Location: one foot over the line | Break the 50 pound mark on some local flatheads, also lookin to break into the 60 inch sturgeon range. Get up to the cabin as often as possible and spend as much time as i can up there chasin the toothy critter, If i could get a 51, that'd be great, if not, i hope to put some new guys on some fish. Put a few more gills in the freezer, finish the exterior of my house, and have a few beers. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Make it to a Muskiefirst Outing, last one I fished was the one I ran in 2003 on Chautauqua Lake! Catch a Great Lakes Spotted Muskie 56"er or better! Catch my 1st muskie with my 8wt fly rod! Last catch an Arapaima over 200 lbs over the next 5 weeks in the Guyana rainforest, getting on the plane in two hours?
Edited by LarryJones 2/11/2014 8:07 PM
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Good luck with the Arapaima MR. Jones |
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