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Location: Wisconsin | esoxaddict - 2/11/2014 7:52 PM
It's a long story, Clammer. I wish I could find the thread from back then. I'll try to shorten it.
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NICE!!! Thanks esox, great story. Love the "hair" comments and the "choir of angels" was pretty special as well. |
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| Open water by opener. |
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Location: NE PA | LarryJones - 2/11/2014 9:06 PM
catch an Arapaima over 200 lbs over the next 5 weeks in the Guyana rainforest, getting on the plane in two hours?
super jealous about that. good luck man |
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| 1) I got a local fish that has been a 5-year quest. Had two misses during those five years. That quest is gunna be in its 6th year, I wonder how long a fish can live, and will she still be there in 2014.
2) Find ways to spend more time with good and new friends on their waters, and my waters.
3) Try to avoid changing the WANT for a new setup (based on a Big Nasty or a Thorne's Predator) to a NEED. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | I am setting some higher goals for myself...
30 fish boated (yes, 30 for me is high)
fish more rubber
Switch baits less often, give what I am using a much larger chance to succeed or fail.
Fish baits I built more.
Perfect my glider figure8
last but not least, as always, have fun and relax on the water with friends and beer
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Location: colorado | Paramuskyhunter - 2/11/2014 4:02 PM
. Also it is not to spend so much on lures and use the ones I have that have never touched the water.
Now That's just crazy talk |
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Location: Plymouth, MN | That's simple, have a more productive season than last year, which should be easy. |
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Location: Knot on the WATER | All of us to stay healthy, and win the PMTT, again...... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | get my daughter on the water more ... |
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Location: Walker, MN | horsehunter - 2/11/2014 8:17 PM
Good luck with the Arapaima MR. Jones
+1 that would be a dream trip for me too. |
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Posts: 1828
| 1. Get a picture with my son (who will be 7 months old by opener) and a musky.
2. Help my wife finally land one.
3. Break my local-lakes-personal best.
Others:
- Fish as good with company as I do by myself. Keep focus and fish smarter, no matter who's with me. Unless my kids are with - then just keep it fun.
- Break my overall personal best.
- Figure out two particular local lakes without my Sensei.
- Catch more than 20 muskies.
- Convert more followers into biters. Better, more persistent boatside work.
- Catch one on a new-to-me lure (Suick, any tube, or any topwater other than a LowRider).
- Don't buy ANY new baits. Save for another good rod. |
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| Fish more docks, bullrushes, and try some shallow areas tight to shore. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | ah yah Jeff that story is funny and makes me laugh to this day... we could probably start a new thread and share stories about falling out of the boat... I fell out one other time after setting the hook hard into a big fish in MN, I took a step or 2 back upon setting, rod loaded, fish came unpinned but my momentum took me backwards, as I stumbled back I had 2 options...land on 5 or 6 rods on the front deck or go over...I chose over.. caught myself on the gunnel as I went over... Cory Painter just stood there in awe laughing at my acrobatics... and I didn't get my hair wet!
Edited by BNelson 2/12/2014 9:11 AM
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| NM state record. |
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Posts: 1405
Location: Detroit River | Besides catching more & bigger fish than last year my primary goal is to lose 30 Lbs. so that the fish look bigger inj my pictures. |
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Posts: 833
| 1.) Get my oldest his first fish, he is 5
2.) Get my first 50 (I bought a bumpboard so no more near misses!)
3.) Double my catches from lsat year (35-ish is the goal, time permitting)
4.) Spend more time on new waters, fish the St. Croix some more
5.) Learn to fish D&R and add that presentation to the mix
6.) Fish more with good friends than I did last year
Edited by Brad P 2/12/2014 9:27 AM
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Location: Chisholm, MN | jaultman - 2/12/2014 8:43 AM
1. Get a picture with my son (who will be 7 months old by opener) and a musky.
2. Help my wife finally land one.
3. Break my local-lakes-personal best.
Others:
- Fish as good with company as I do by myself. Keep focus and fish smarter, no matter who's with me. Unless my kids are with - then just keep it fun.
- Break my overall personal best.
- Figure out two particular local lakes without my Sensei.
- Catch more than 20 muskies.
- Convert more followers into biters. Better, more persistent boatside work.
- Catch one on a new-to-me lure (Suick, any tube, or any topwater other than a LowRider).
- Don't buy ANY new baits. Save for another good rod.
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| catch more then 1 fish |
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Location: Money, PA | 1. Get my two boys out on the water more with me...They are 8 and 10 y/o
2. Fish Ohio more.
Edited by ShutUpNFish 2/12/2014 1:11 PM
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Posts: 633
| Get out and fish more.
Get out with my kids more.
Learn some new waters.
Don't be afraid to change lures more often. |
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| Catch a 56+ Incher |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Forgot to add... Catch my first 50"
V\Can't believe I forgot that.. Something might be wrong with me. I am going to go take my temp |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | "See ice out here by June opener." That is COLD very COLD Bondy!!
Scary part is how close to true it could be for many of us!!! My 2014 goal would simply be able to go Muskie fishing allot more than last year!!
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Posts: 785
| My goals in general, but would love to achieve in 2014;
-Catch a 50"+ out of an Iowa lake.
-Actually land a 55" or bigger musky. The "actually landing" being the part that has proved difficult so far. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Kinda lofty but that's what goals are for...
- Get my 12 yo son a new pb, he's now at 55"
- catch a 55#, 57" (or just get it done with one fish)
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Posts: 24
| 1.Catch a Tiger
2.Spend more time open water fishing
3.Fish Green Bay more often
4.Catch a fish on the new under dawg
5.Use gliders more often
6.Catch a 50" ( Caught a 49.5" this past fall) |
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Posts: 123
| can't believe nobody has said the obvious, 70lber, tagged and bagged, to end all the internet squabbles once and for all. |
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| will pass the rest of my life trying to caught the ottawa river 59x34
maybe in 20 years he will be that big who know |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | 2013 was a financial disaster for Michelle and I. Prior years saw us fishing all the time. Michelle was winning Muskies inc titles and I was watching her catch huge fish on our baits. In 2012 she ripped up her Ankle and it never came back. Surgery failed to fix it and her career as a Registered Nurse came to an end. November of 2013 I was diagnosed with Cancer on my Lip. In January I Had it removed but the costs before January 1st were huge as we had no Insurance. Today we just want to be debt free by May and have found a couple ways to do that without selling our big water boat. My biggest Goal for 2014 is to Fish with my wife at least once a week this year. Would like to return to Lake St. Clair and the Upper Peninsula as we have not been to either in several years. Mike |
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Posts: 38
| My goals for the upcoming season are:
a fish 50"+
get one on topwater
Catch a spotted beast from the St. Lawrence
Buy more wood and custom baits and fewer mass produced/plastic baits.
More time on the water. |
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