2022 Goals Achieved and Not

Goals achieved in bold green

Goals not achieved in red
Partly achieved in purple
Commentary in blue

Fishing Buddies: 

1. Fish with Dad (Pretty sure I asked him if he wanted to go a couple times)
2. Fish with Mike Thompson (Did not ask)
3. Fish with Jim Bonin (DNA)
4.  Fish With Josh Abrahamson & Ashley Just  (DNA)
5. Fish with Jeff and Renee (Never came up north)
6. Fish with Todd, Isabelle, and Mallory (They are into tubing and the Jet Ski)
7.  Fish with Kane Phongsavat  (Didn't work out this year)
8. Fish with Jaimen Abrahamson  (DNA)
9. Fish with Dave Lindmark  (DNA)
10. Fish with Steve and Devin
11. Take Corey Hicks frog fishing.  (DNA)
12. Fish with Jamar at Eddy's  (He only came up a couple times, and fishing was trash)
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. (Best finish was 10th Place at Gull. Pretty sure that is my worst high finish since joining the club0
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. (Fishing with Chuck was the highlight of my tournament season,)
5. Finish in the Top 10 at the end of the year. (Finished in 13th Place, needed 9 more points to catch Theo in 10th) 
6. Catch a limit at every tournament of the year. (Wasted no time failing to catch a limit at Farm Island)
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 (Closest was at Gull, where I came in 2nd Place as a Co)
10. Make the Challenge Cup Team

11. Finish higher than Tuma in a Tournament (He didn't fish this year)
12. Give each boater I fish a lure from my collection. (Done)

13. Catch a 20+ Bag and make the Club's list of Top 25 Biggest Bags (15/2 at Gull was my best bag this year)

Technique, Equipment, & Tackle Goals:
1. Win something in Fantasy Fishing or Facebook giveaways/contests. (Won a rod in the MLF Predictor Game and won BBC Group $ once)
2. Officially Open the Tackle Warehouse this year. (May 6,2022)
3.  Keep a Lures Lost List (Did it. Most lost lure was 8 Billy Goats)
4. Catch 25 fish on a Frenzy Popper (Not sure if I even through it)
5. Catch 25 fish on a Stanley Phantom (I threw it a couple of times, but no takers)

6. Catch bass cranking deep in Sullivan Lake (Caught 1 bass deep cranking. Tried several times.)

7. Get better at marking waypoints when I catch a fish (Done)

8. Start using side-imaging to catch fish (Got a few, a work in progress)

9. Sell some of my tackle (Not much)

10. Give Away some of my tackle (Did it)

 Blogging:

1. Blog about it when I achieve a goal most of the time (Yep)
2. Record all fishing trips at Fish Swami (Done)
3. Fish at least 200 days and blog about them (224 Days fished in 2022)

4. Give better descriptions of trips in the Notes at Fish Swami (Done)

5. Get all those unblogged trips from 2021 at Fish Swami blogged at the Log Blog (Project for the future)

Fish Goals:
1. Catch* 4,000 Fish (Did it)
2. Average 5 fish caught per hour. (5.53 per hour in 2022)
3. Have a 100 fish day. (Came up 3 fish short of doing it twice)

4. Catch Devin's Birthday Bullhead On May 20th (Done)

5. Catch A Fish Every Month (Done)

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 1,685)  

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.
(Seriously thinking about shuttering the MBC. A lot of the code on the blog no longer works, so I can't do anything with it)

Pike:
1. Catch* over 1,000 this year.
2. Catch a 38" or over/personal best.

Bass: 
1. Catch a 21plus inch or 6lb Largemouth (6.5lbs/21" PB) (Nope)
2. Catch a 21plus inch or 6lb Smallmouth (20.5" PB) (Nope)
3. Catch* over 1,500 bass this year. (1785 for the year) 
4. Catch* at least 10 smallies.  (Caught 2 smallies in 2022)
5. Catch a 25lb 6 Fish Bag (No, not even sure if I broke 20lbs)
6. Have a 50 bass day (Did it at least 4 times)

7. Catch over 500 bass on Frogs/Toads (Did it)
8. Catch 5 bass over  5lbs/20-inches (No 5lbers this year)

9. Catch 25 bass over 4lbs/19-inches (Caught 39 4lbers)
10. Get Steve and Todd at least one 4lber (One a piece and Steve did it on the final trip)

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

Walleye:
1. Catch at least 100. (Caught 86, but 43 of them weren't hook and line fish) 
2. Catch 30"/10lber or new personal best. (28.5 is PB) (Nope)

* Catch is anything I deem it to be, including follows by pike or smallmouth, a pike missing my lure, fish viewed on the Aqua View, fish I spot in a spotlight 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.

Added A New Goal To My Baxter Bass Snatchers Goals List

I want to bring in a bag bigger than 20 and a half pounds and make the club's list of Top 25 Biggest Bags.

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.

Fishing Goals For 2022, Preview 2&3

 Last year I bought myself a new Garmin Fishfinder, a Garmin 7SV. The SV stands for side-view a feature I really didn't explore much last year. This year I want to use side-imaging to help me catch fish and I also want to get better at marking weigh points when I catch fish. Unfortunately, due to the price of gas, I don't think I am going to do too much in the way of new mapping this year. 

Fishing Goals for 2022, Preview #1

 Sometime in early March, I will release my complete list of fishing goals for 2022. 

One of my goals for 2022 is to write more complete notes at Fish Swami, the online fishing log where I record all my catches. Last year, I ran out of steam on blogging my trips at the Fishing Log Blog in May, and that lack of enthusiasm for doing it remained with me for the rest of the year. I am now in the process of backfilling those missed blogs. It would be nice if I had more complete info from Fish Swami that I could just copy and paste into the blogs I am doing now.