Northwest Fishing Reports

Thought this would be a sorta fun thread.
Share your fishing dreams or goals that you wanna accomplish
throughout your life !
I'll start, I have always been taught to dream big...
1.Catch a salmon (king) of atleast 50 pounds.
2. Catch a steely of atleast 17 pounds.
3. Catch a 8+ foot sturgeon.
4.Catch a double digit LMB
5. I wanna go to Florida and catch Tarpon
6. Become really good at Fly Fishing.
7. Go to San Diego on a charter and catch Mako Sharks. My uncle did it before, and caught a 6 foot mako.
8. Catch barracuda.
9. Catch a trophy pink salmon !
10. This is by far my biggest dream, to catch a world record fish !
I know I know, I dream big.
What do you guy got!?!?!?!?!:nemo:

Keep living for another 10 years so I can;

Catch a state record bass, big or little bass. There IS a world record Smallie in this state.

Fish in tournies again.

Go to Texas, Calif., or Fl. and catch a 20 lb Largie.

Go to Calif. and play with the cars again at the road courses.

Win another 'Best in Show' with the dog I have now.

Retire to Mexico, buy a little beachside casita and a panga and see what happens next.

1 .compete in tournaments
2. catch a sockeye and chum and a Atlantic
3. become a guide
4. have own tv show
5. catch a sturgeon
6. catch a tarpon
7. catch a peacock bass
8. catch a channel catfish
9. i dont know if this relates to this topic but BECOME A STORM CHASER then go fish in between storms.
10. catch a pike, musky, tiger
11. catch a grouper
12. catch a state record (Could of happen a few years ago catching a arrowhead flounder--- *NOT listed in state records yet*
13. become a WDFW officer!

My goals are as follows........CATCH FISH!

Retire early to go fishing everyday.

kzoo wrote:Retire early to go fishing everyday.

Done.

Amx wrote:

kzoo wrote:Retire early to go fishing everyday.

Done.

Must be nice.

kzoo wrote:

Amx wrote:

kzoo wrote:Retire early to go fishing everyday.

Done.

Must be nice.

Yes it is, but I'm always short of money.

i've gotta say my top goal is to put 60+lb king in the net.
catch a sockeye, bull trout & dolly to finish off the river slam.
get a triple digit hali
just hook into a 12 foot dino (i wanna see how bad a fish that size really is!)
and last get a 10+lb rainbow out of american or mineral lake (not a triploid!) to mount and put on the wall.

I would only call this a goal, and obviously not a dream. I would like to move away from my "Confidence baits" with bass, and learn to successfuly fish a broader range of bass baits. I am kind of stuck on large Senkos. I want to hit my two local urban lakes HAAARRRRRDDDDD! this year, and although I think I know those lakes well. I would like to recognize this fish I'm catching.... from catching them so often. (the larger ones I'm talking about):bball:

I have a few...

Catch some of the fish I haven't yet caught... brown trout, walleye, marlin, mahi mahi

Then bump my PR's for chinook over 40 (from 34) and halibut over 100 (from 92)

Last would be to have all three of my kids LOVE fishing...

50+ inch Lingcod and/or 40+lb Halibut from the kayak.

catch a humpy in 2011

Shad_Eating_Grin wrote:catch a humpy in 2011

Now there is a hard one to fulfill, lol.

well i have never caught a steel head... so i wouldnt mind crossing that one off...

sickbayer wrote:well i have never caught a steel head... so i wouldnt mind crossing that one off...

Ya gotta go fish for them if ya wanna catch one....


For me another week at rufus in the sun and Walter..... I saw him minimum 25# more like 30........

Well maybe a Tarpon on a fly.

I'd like to fly fish Alaska for those giant Rainbows and beautiful Arctic Grayling. Then head south to Hebgen Lake. I haven't fished that lake since before the earthquake changed it's shape. My Dad and my Uncle Don were the first to fish that lake with leaded line and flatfish. That was in the '40s, just after WWII.

Great thread.

My goals have been set to be realistic.......( not that 5 world records is'nt realistic....JK )

#1- 60lb Halibut, 40lb Ling and a 30lb king (keeper) in this fiscal year

#2- Catch 5 salmon species in one fiscal year (king,silver,sockeye,chum,pink)

#3- Take atleast one person fishing that would otherwise not have the chance or ability

#4- Fish with atleast 2 WL members that i have never met (I'm trying to get things together JENS)

#5- Fish atleast 2 rivers I have neverfished before (this one is easy, now have a drift boat)

#6- More fishing with my dad and my kid

#7- TAKE MORE PICTURES

Goals for 2011:
Learn some bassic bass catching techniques
Spend more time on the water fishing
Have at least one day where I C&R a dozen good sized bass
Can 100 lbs of slamon (home canning/jars)

Dream~~~~~~~~~~~
Win the lottery so I can trek around the globe to catch more fish!
A couple of weeks in Costa Rica catching sailfish
Africa or Australia for marlin
Peacock bass South/Central America
Alaska for Arctic Grayling
Canada for trophy pike
Learn how to fly,,,,,float plane