2023 Was Not A Good Year For BP's Goals Achieved

  

Green = Goal achieved

Red = Goal Unachieved

Purple = Partly achieved

Italics indicate it was a new Goal for 2023

Black = an explanation.

Fishing Buddies: 

1. Fish with Dad
2. Fish with Mike Thompson
3. Fish with Jim Bonin
4.  Fish With Pat Woodgate
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. 

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) I made the Club Super 6.

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. (I made the club Super 6)
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. (First time I have achieved this one. I did at the final two tournaments of the year at Pokegama and Whitefish Chain)
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. (Herman didn't want anything)

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

13. Fish the BASS Nation State Championship on Leech as a  Co-Angler (It didn't work out)

14. Pre-fish at least two tournaments with Roger Ubl (Mom's health and one car killed this)
15. Set Personal Bests on each lake for Bag Size, Big Bass, and Place of Finish

I got personal bests in all three at North Long and Alexander.

I  got best place of finishes on Poke and whitefish

16. Grade my performance in each tournament and also do this for all my past Bass Snatcher tournament recaps. (I still have to do the Blind/Serpent Recap)
It was an OK year


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. Catch 25 fish on a Frenzy Popper
5. Catch 25 fish on a Stanley Phantom

6. Catch bass cranking deep in Sullivan Lake

7. Sell some of my tackle (I don't remember if I sold anything.)

8.  Keep a Lures Lost List

9 Catch a bass, pike, and walleye on a Hot-N-Tot
10. Dedicate a rod to plastic worms (non-Senko). I had a dedicated rod at the beginning of the year, but I wasn't catching anything so I scrapped it. 
11. Catch 30 fish on a prop bait and throw them during the post-spawn.
12. Catch 5 bass on a Jitterbug.
13. Experiment with a Rocket Bobber and Wacky Rig

Lures Lost In 2023:

Texas Rig: |||| ||

Dark Sleeper KO: ||||

Berkely Minnow: |

Rap V-Blade: |

Monsoor Swim Jigs: ||||

Berkley Cutter: |

Ult Jerk Shad: |

Northland Spinnerbait: ||

Herb's Dilly: |

Billy GOAT: ||
ToadZ: |

Turbo FattyZ: |||| |||

Texas Rig Tungsten: |

Ish's Phat Frog: |

Bobby's Perfect: |||| ||||

Teckel Whacker Frog: |||

Dark Sleeper: |

Terminator Pop Frog: |

SP Phat Frog: |

LiveTarget Frog: |

Berkley Stunna: |
Hack Jig: |
Mission Spinnerbait: |
Big Blade Chatterbait: ||||

Glow Demon: |||

T.H.E. Jig: |

PB Twitch: |
JH Lure Box: 3 Bubble Walker 80, 2 Bubble Walker 128, 2 to 4 Jackhammers, 1 or 2 Big Blade Chatters, 2 Livetarget Wake Gill FS, 1 LT Wake Gill Jr, Plus a few things I don't remember that were in it. Losing this box sucks.

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 and 2022 at Fish Swami blogged at the Log Blog

Fish Catching Goals:
1. Catch* 3,500 Fish (Caught less than 2,700 fish in 2023)
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

🗹May

🗹June

🗹July

🗹August

🗹September

🗹October

🗹November

🗹December

Crappie:

1. Catch a new personal best.(14.75/1.80lb on 5/9/22)
2. Catch* over 500 Crappies this year. (Caught 108 in 2023)

3. Catch my personal best number of crappies.

Due to hurting my back didn't get much ice fishing done early in the year and it was a marginal year at the GOMH with only 28 silver bullheads landed.)

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.

I'm quitting the MBC Presidency.

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

Platte Lake winter kill is why I finally achieved the 1,000 pike goal.

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 7 SMB in 2023)
5. Catch a 25lb 6 Fish Bag
6. Have a 50-bass day 

7. Catch over 500 bass on Frogs/Toads (Only got 395 Frog Bass in 2023)
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. Steve only got out a couple of times.

11. Get Belle, Mallory, and Devin a frog fish.

Winter kill torched my bass goals, no doubt about it. I got some small smallies at Mille Lacs

Walleye:

1. Catch at least 100. (I caught 83 eyes in 2023)
2. Catch 30"/10lber or new personal best. (28.5 is PB)

It was a decent year for walleyes at both the GOMH and Eddy's.