2018 Goals

FlyTheory · #1 04-12-2018, 09:27 AM

What are your 2018 fishing goals?

35 whelen · #2 04-12-2018, 09:41 AM

To get healthy and take september-october off for hunting

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35 whelen · #3 04-12-2018, 10:44 AM

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To get healthy and take september-october off for hunting

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AND FISHING

dodger · #4 04-12-2018, 09:42 AM

Picked up some ultra-lite gear so I can target lake whites on open water.

Dodger.

Talking moose · #5 04-12-2018, 09:43 AM

I am not going to fish for numbers(unless I bring a newbie or child along) will only be fishing waterbodies that have the highest potential to produce large fish, hello athabasca, nsr, ssr, and a couple of the southern reservoirs. I’m kind of centralized between those waterbodys so not crazy travel times.

guru fisher · #6 04-12-2018, 09:50 AM

Break muskoviches dyno record !!!!!

Sooner · #7 04-12-2018, 09:52 AM

Get out and Fish More lakes and here on the NS.

pinelakeperch · #8 04-12-2018, 09:56 AM

Get out in the boat more, catch a sturgeon within city limits, catch more brookies, beat my rainbow PB in Blood Indian, do more "catch and cooks."

Scott N · #9 04-12-2018, 10:08 AM

My main goal is just to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Last year I got out over 60 times and landed over 300 fish. For me it's mostly about getting out and turning my mind off... fishing is the ultimate "mindfulness" activity for anyone else who is into that kind of thing. I try to get out every weekend, it helps turn off my busy mind.

A couple of things I'd like to try for the first time this year... fly fishing for pike. I'd also like to catch my first walleye... sadly, there a species I've never really targeted, and when I've had the chance to catch them, never had any luck other than catching some pike. There's some irony in the fact that I've caught quite a few golden trout, one of the rarest in the province, and yet never caught one of the most common fish on the prairies, and I grew up in southern AB and I'm originally from southern Saskatchewan.

RavYak · #10 04-12-2018, 10:51 AM

I want to catch my first halibut as well as new personal best salmon and ling cod(from a kayak too).

I would also like to break some personal bests. Targets include a 30+ inch walleye, 30+ inch bull trout, 22+ inch cutthroat trout, 48+ inch pike, 8+ foot white sturgeon.

millsboy79 · #11 04-12-2018, 11:37 AM

Some goldeye on the dry fly is on the list.

millsboy79 · #12 04-13-2018, 02:38 PM

Still no bait in the minnow traps though so don't get your hopes too high

WayneChristie · #13 04-13-2018, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by millsboy79

Still no bait in the minnow traps though so don't get your hopes too high

I suppose no one would ever think to bury fish remains after a nice shore lunch in a shallow hole in the gravel cover it with a thin layer of gravel so that you arent chumming and set an empty trap on top of it. I know I wouldnt Im not that clever

Walleyedude · #14 04-13-2018, 06:44 PM

Mine is pretty simple, same as every year - get out on the water more!

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my quest to never stop learning, it’s that there’s simply no better teacher than time on the water. The trick is to not fish memories and to constantly try to step out of your “comfort zone”, try new techniques, re-try things you couldn’t get to work in the past, and just continue to dial things in.

Uggg, is there ever going to open water?????

MDR · #15 04-15-2018, 02:17 PM

To catch an Inconnu and to do some more fly fishing.

SNAPFisher · #16 04-15-2018, 03:10 PM

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To catch an Inconnu and to do some more fly fishing.

Inconnu you say.... Yukon?
Any plans to find them, lake wise or otherwise?

FlyTheory · #17 04-16-2018, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MDR

To catch an Inconnu and to do some more fly fishing.

That’s on of my bucket list fish!

Red Bullets · #18 04-15-2018, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by millsboy79

Still no bait in the minnow traps though so don't get your hopes too high

Crayfish in the tributaries of the NS river start congregating in late summer to October when they spawn. They should be easier to target when they are congregating. Not so sure about the eating the crayfish from the river. They might be not as clean. I think I would prefer to get some from the lakes.

-JR- · #19 04-15-2018, 05:44 PM

Find a good fishing partner I can go fishing with every weekend.

dryflyguy · #20 04-16-2018, 02:00 PM

1. Get a trailer for my tinner
2. Fly fish the Elk River in BC
3. Find some nice perch on the open water

GoneFishingEDM · #21 04-16-2018, 02:45 PM

I'm hoping to get out to some new lakes this year. I bought a new 7'6" one piece rod and a new baitcaster reel too go with it. Now just have tip catch some big ones.

Looper · #22 04-17-2018, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by millsboy79

Still no bait in the minnow traps though so don't get your hopes too high

Call a F&W officer to be sure of that rule.

Down here they say giver with the bait if your going to use those minnows in the same body of water you catch them in.

A minnow trap without bait is an egg basket.

Looper

1shotwade · #23 04-17-2018, 04:00 PM

Headed to northern Manitoba. Maybe Up my best walleye and pike and first lake trout!!!!!!

millsboy79 · #24 04-17-2018, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Looper

Call a F&W officer to be sure of that rule.

Down here they say giver with the bait if your going to use those minnows in the same body of water you catch them in.

A minnow trap without bait is an egg basket.

Looper

Seems pretty cut and dry in the regs to me ... perhaps they should just make it clearer.

Fishwhere · #25 04-13-2018, 05:09 PM

Love to get on some perch at least once, and try my luck at open water whitefish