Saturday, March 19, 2022

2022 Fishing Goals



New Goals in italic orange bold.

Fishing Buddies: 
1. Fish with Dad
2. Fish with Mike Thompson
3. Fish with Jim Bonin
4.  Fish With Josh Abrahamson & Ashley Just
5. Fish with Jeff and Renee
6. Fish with Todd, Isabelle, and Mallory
7.  Fish with Kane Phongsavat
8. Fish with Jaimen Abrahamson
9. Fish with Dave Lindmark
10. Fish with Steve and Devin
11. Take Corey Hicks frog fishing.
12. Fish with Jamar at Eddy's
13. Fish with Eric Aske
14. Fish with Pete
15. Fish with Kiefer for crappies this spring. (Gas Prices and 1 car)

Dream Fishing Buddies:
1. Fish with Josh Douglas
2. Fish with Al Lindner
3. Fish With Nattie Up North

Bass Snatcher Goals: (Same Goals as 2020)
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. Get paired with Chuck Fields.
5. Finish in the Top 10 at the end of the year. 
6. 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.)
7. Pre-fish with at least 3 boaters. (Farm, Gull, S. Long)
8. List the Rods I'm bringing for each tournament before the tournament.
9.  Win the Co-Angler Challenge at least twice
10. Make the Challenge Cup Team
11. 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)
12. Give each boater I fish a lure from my collection.
13. Catch a 20+ Bag and make the Club's list of Top 25 Biggest Bags 

Technique, Equipment, & Tackle Goals:
1. Win something in Fantasy Fishing or Facebook giveaways/contests.
2. Officially Open the Tackle Warehouse this year.
3.  Keep a Lures Lost List
4. Catch 25 fish on a Frenzy Popper
5. Catch 25 fish on a Stanley Phantom
6. Catch bass cranking deep in Sullivan Lake
7. Get better at marking waypoints when I catch a fish
8. Start using side-imaging to catch fish
9. Sell some of my tackle
10. Give Away some of my tackle

Lures Lost In 2022:
Bear Trax Glow Demon: ||||
Cubby Mini-Mite: |
T,H.E. Jig: ||
Rippin Rap: |
Jerk Shad: |||
Pure Poison: |
Texas Rig: |||| ||||
Terminator Poppin Frog: |||
Bobby's Perfect: ||||
Teckel Whacker: | 
Herb's Dilly Buzzbait: |
Z-Man Goat: ||||
Mad Maxx: Big Sexy, Grapes of Wrath,
Z-Man Billy Goat: |||| |||
SK KVD Swim Jig: |||
Z-Man Toadz: |||| ||
SK KVD Sexy Frog: |
Tungsten Texas Rig: |||| ||
eBay Swim Jig: |
Hack Jig: ||||
SK Skip Jig: |
All-Terrain Skip Jig: |
All-Terrain Grassmaster: |
Frenzy Minnow: |
Dark Sleeper: |

 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. Give better descriptions of trips in the Notes at Fish Swami
5. Get all those unblogged trips from 2021 at Fish Swami blogged at the Log Blog

Fish Goals:
1. Catch* 4,000 Fish (3,900+ caught in 2021)
2. Average 5 fish caught per hour. (4.96 in 2021, 3.92 in 2020, 4.40 in 2019, 4.07 in 2018, 3.99 in 2017, 4.08 in 2016, 3.62 in 2015, 3.55 in 2014, 4.41 in 2013, 4.31 in 2012, 2.77 in 2011)
3. Have a 100 fish day.
4. Catch Devin's Birthday Bullhead On May 20th
5. Catch A Fish Every Month
🗹January
🗹February
🗹March
🗹April
🗹May
🗹June
🗹July
🗹 August
🗹 September
🗹 October
🗹 November
🗹 December

Crappie:
1. Catch a new personal best. (Currently 14.25") (Got 14.75/1.80lb on 5/9/22)
2. Catch* over 1,500 Crappies this year. (Caught 834  in 2021)
3. Catch my personal best number of crappies.

Dogfish:
1. Win my 3rd Minnesota Bowfin Club Grand Championship
2. Catch an MN State Record fish. (11-4  or 35" x 20")
3. Catch a new personal best.
4. Get the Minnesota Bowfin Club Grand Championship stuff done in a timely manner this year.

Pike:
1. Catch* over 1,000 this year. (Caught 968 in 2021)
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 1,178 in 2021)
4. Catch* at least 10 smallies.  (I caught 0 last year)
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
9. Catch 25 bass over 4lbs/19-inches
10. Get Steve and Todd at least one 4lber
11. Get Belle, Mallory, and Devin a frog fish.

Walleye:
1. Catch at least 100. (Caught 62 in 2021)
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.

A goal that I reached is in bold black.

New for 2021 in italics.

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