BP's 2025 Fishing Goals

 

New Goals in Bold Italic Orange

Goals Accomplished in Bold or  ✅

Fishing Buddies List

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

The List:

GOMH Crew: (Last Year this list had 20+ People)

Trophy Crew: (5 People last year)

Bass Snatchers: (7 Snatchers last year)

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 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. Find my Johnson's Silver Minnow Spoon's and catch 5 fish with them.

9. Catch 5 bass on a Jitterbug.

10. Catch 5 Fish on Powerbait Nessie

11.  Keep a Lures Lost List

Lures Lost In 2024:

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 2021,2022,2023,2024 at Fish Swami blogged at the Log Blog.

6. Be more intentional about taking Sunrise/Sunset pictures

7. Get Fish Swami "GOMH/Bullhead Updated/Fishing Buddies Updated" 

Fish Catching Goals:
1. Catch* 2,000 Fish (I caught 2,398 fish in 2024)
2. Have a 100-fish day.

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

4. Catch A Fish Every Month from April to December.

Crappie:

1. Catch a new personal best.(14.75/1.80lb on 5/9/22, 14.75 on 4/20/24)
2. Catch* over 100 Crappies this year. (346Crappies, 245Silver Bullhead in 2024)

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

Pike:
1. Catch* over 700 this year. (Caught 507 in 2024)
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 1,000 bass this year. (Caught 895 in 2024)
4. Catch* at least 10 smallies.  (Caught 9 in 2024)
5. Catch a 25lb 6 Fish Bag
6. Have a 50 bass day (48 bass on 5/23/24)

7. Catch over 500 bass on Frogs/Toads
8. Catch 5 bass over  5lbs/20-inches (3 in 2024)

9. Catch 20 bass over 4lbs/18.75-inches (10 in 2024)
10. Get Steve and Todd at least one 4lber

Walleye:
1. Catch at least 50. (Caught 41 in 2024) 
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 boating during pre-fishing.