BP's Fishing Goals for 2024

 

New Goals in Bold Italic Orange

Goals Accomplished in Bold

Fishing Buddies: I am doing away with the old Fishing Buddies goals list.

1. Keep a list of everyone I fish with in 2024.

The List:

GOMH Crew

Cody (Dock Guy)
Lantern Man: |||| ||

Lantern Man's Son (Brett): ||||
Kyle (Brett):|

Skibidibi (Rick Skiba): ||||

Kyle (No Brett): ||

LM Granddaughter (K):||

LM Daughter: ||

Little Falls Guy:||||

Logan:||

Trophy Crew:

Bass Snatchers:

Bass Snatcher Goals: 

1.  Win my 2nd club tournament. 
2. Get "Wood" in at least one tournament. (1st-3rd Place Finish or Lunker or Co-Angler Challenge) 

3. Get "Lunker" in a tournament.   (Preferably one over 5-8 to win the revolving big bass pot.)
4. Finish in the Top 10 at the end of the year. 
5. Catch a limit at every tournament of the year.  (I've done this twice, but in 2012 I only fished 4 out of the 6 tournaments due to a bad back.)
6. Pre-fish with at least 3 boaters.
7. List the Rods I'm bringing for each tournament before the tournament.
8.  Win the Co-Angler Challenge at least twice
9. Make the Challenge Cup Team

10. Finish higher than Tuma in a Tournament (He is the only long-term Snatcher I have not beaten on tournament day. He beat me on the tie-breaker on Whitefish Chain his rookie year in the club. That is the closest I have gotten)
11. Give each boater I fish a lure from my collection.

12. Catch a 20+ Bag and make the Club's list of Top 25 Biggest Bags 

13. Set Personal Bests on each lake for Bag Size, Big Bass, and Place of Finish

14. Grade my performance in each tournament and also do this for all my past Bass Snatcher tournament recaps.


Technique, Equipment, & Tackle Goals:
1. Win something in Fantasy Fishing or Facebook giveaways/contests.
2. Officially Open the Tackle Warehouse.
3. Give Away some of my tackle
4. Experiment with a Rocket Bobber and Wacky Rig
5. Catch 25 fish on a Stanley Phantom

6. Catch bass cranking deep in Sullivan Lake

7. Sell some of my tackle

8. Catch 30 fish on a prop bait and throw them during the post-spawn.

9. Catch 5 bass on a Jitterbug.
10.  Keep a Lures Lost List

Lures Lost In 2024:

Glow Demon: |||| |

T.H.E. Jig:||

Cubby Mini-Mite: ||

X-Rap 10: |

Rapala V-Blade: |

Blogging:

1. Blog about it when I achieve a goal most of the time
2. Record all fishing trips at Fish Swami
3. Fish at least 200 days and blog about them

4. Get unblogged trips from 2021,2022,2023 at Fish Swami blogged at the Log Blog.

5. Make at least 10, First 5 Cast's videos

6. Be more intentional about taking Sunrise/Sunset pictures

Fish Catching Goals:
1. Catch* 3,000 Fish 
2. Have a 100-fish day.

3. Catch Devin's Birthday Bullhead On May 20th

4. Catch A Fish Every Month

🗹January

🗹February

🗹March

🗹April

Crappie:

1. Catch a new personal best.(14.75/1.80lb on 5/9/22)
2. Catch* over 450 Crappies this year.

Dogfish:
1. Catch an MN State Record fish. (11-4  or over 31")
2. Catch a new personal best.

Pike:
1. Catch* over 1,000 this year. (Caught 1,130 in 2023)
2. Catch a 38" or over/personal best.

Bass: 
1. Catch a 21plus inch or 6lb Largemouth (6.5lbs/21" PB)
2. Catch a 21plus inch or 6lb Smallmouth (20.5" PB)
3. Catch* over 1,500 bass this year. (Caught 1,218 in 2023)
4. Catch* at least 10 smallies.  (Caught 7in 2023)
5. Catch a 25lb 6 Fish Bag
6. Have a 50 bass day 

7. Catch over 500 bass on Frogs/Toads
8. Catch 5 bass over  5lbs/20-inches (0 in 2023)

9. Catch 25 bass over 4lbs/19-inches (30 in 2023)
10. Get Steve and Todd at least one 4lber

Walleye:
1. Catch at least 100. 
2. Catch 30"/10lber or new personal best. (28.5 is PB)

* Catch is anything I deem it to be, including follows by pike or smallmouth (while pre-fishing), a pike missing my lure, fish viewed on the Aqua View, and fish that get off before I have them in hand that I can positively identify.  And fish caught by people I am guiding or boater during pre-fish.