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12-31-2007, 08:21 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Fishing Goals For 08'!
Keeperreaper started a similar thread in boating so my apologies if I am stealing his thunder but many don't go there! 
So what are your fishing related goals for 2008?! New places you want to fish? Set a personal best? Perhaps catch fish of a different species for the first time?
I have a few.....my quest for a striper over 40 continues...so I hope to end that......and it comes on wood! A striper over 30 pounds on topwater! Would like to fish Block Island, maybe Montauk! Cuttyhunk is already on the schedule...again!  I guess I will be fishing the canal a little? 
Best of luck to my fellow fishermen.....may your fishing aspirations come true in 08'! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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12-31-2007, 08:24 PM
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Gone Dark
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Buzzards Bay
Posts: 512
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12-31-2007, 08:25 PM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 2,461
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No thunder stolen. My goals for '08 are as follows.
Learn more techniques/applications to catch fish consistently.
Get another 50 this time from shore.
Break the 40 pound mark from the canal.
Fish with some new people from the board.
Enjoy my fishing time with my daughter.
Learn Rhody a lot better than I know it now.
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Make America Great Again.
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12-31-2007, 08:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Goals for 2008
To pay under $5:00 per gal on the water!
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LETS GO BRANDON
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12-31-2007, 08:29 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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No bikes.....you don't have a bike!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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12-31-2007, 08:34 PM
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Gone Dark
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Buzzards Bay
Posts: 512
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
No bikes.....you don't have a bike!
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12-31-2007, 08:46 PM
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Lubina Estriada!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 307
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BFT and 48.5lb Striped Bass or better from the kayak. Finding and landing a Mahi in New England would be a bonus.
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Kayak Fishing Baby! Fish Reel Hard!
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12-31-2007, 09:14 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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I fished a ton this year and learned so much in 07. I guess a goal for me would be to keep the momentum going and try to learn even more in 08.
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12-31-2007, 09:27 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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I would love to get a sailfish when I go to Florida...except for that I really don't have any fishing goals....
Last edited by Slingah; 12-31-2007 at 10:20 PM..
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Live at Leeds
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12-31-2007, 09:57 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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No goals just enjoy every day
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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12-31-2007, 10:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
No goals just enjoy every day
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12-31-2007, 11:01 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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My goal is to be healthy enough to be able to fish with Crazy Alberto  I better get into shape |
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12-31-2007, 11:20 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
I better get into shape
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I busted my a$$ last winter to be in shape for fishing in 07 and what a HUGE difference it made with my shoulder and back strength plus my stamina. I remember working out on the eliptical machine and free weights thinking of all of the tough places to fish and also throwing 4.5 oz jigs in the canal all night....my shoulders and back felt great all season long. |
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01-01-2008, 01:11 AM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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30 on topwater would also make me  but it will never happen. |
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01-01-2008, 01:33 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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30 is my goal this year
also want to De-mystify the Needle.
Fish the Block for the 1st time would also be nice
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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01-01-2008, 01:51 AM
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I Had A BLAST!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: I'm from Manhattan, Live in CT., but my heart is in SoCo!
Posts: 1,132
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I have talked with a buddy of mine, in the past few seasons, to make some trips. With my son being older, now, I think I can make this work.  |
Be encouraging, not discouraging
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01-01-2008, 07:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
Posts: 587
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My goals:
Find a few spots closer to my new home (Melrose MA)
As someone said earlier unlock the needle
Learn a few Canal spots
Work at all aspects just to become more consistent
Stay healthy
Try to get a better balance between fishing, wife, job etc. Basically try to fish more but not slow my productivity in the other areas.
Meet and fish with some of the guys from this board.
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01-01-2008, 07:29 AM
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The Black Dog - Emma
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Central Jersey (Hightstown)
Posts: 439
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a 40lb plus on a plug
catch a bigeye tuna over 250
use my kayak more
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Ride the spiral to the end...............
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01-01-2008, 08:19 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
No goals just enjoy every day
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If I break a personal best awesome .. if I don't ,,just enjoy the time in the water...Would like to fish with more peeps on the board .. Only goal would be to gain access to some spots I been eyeing .. |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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01-01-2008, 09:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: R.I.
Posts: 515
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1 get healthy, 2 quit smoking ,nicer to the wife and kids.
I am going to try to fish nights more in new spots from the surf and in the kayak.Live line a large pogi never tried it.Fish wish a sluggo never really tried it.Buy and try custom plugs from local guys even though i cant afford it.Top my record of 12 bass over 28 inches last year.And most of all catch a bass over 35 pounds doesnt matter how.
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01-01-2008, 09:11 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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#1 goal is 40# + on wood in the surf- came thisclose last season, explore northern ma a bit more, and fish with good friends more often.
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01-01-2008, 09:32 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Quote:
Originally Posted by luds48
30 on topwater would also make me but it will never happen. |
Absolutley happen - fish where you've been fishing and switch over to a Tattoo spook after the first hints of purple in the early morning sky - Haven't had a 30 that way yet but I've had a few mid-upper 20s and I'm almost NEVER out at sunrise. The explosions on that spook are freakin' amazing that early in the morning |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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01-01-2008, 09:37 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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Originally Posted by luds48
30 on topwater would also make me but it will never happen.
it can happen! 39# on my 3.25oz pencil last fall  . |
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01-01-2008, 09:45 AM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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Basic & simple fishing goals for 08.....I'd like to get out more,fish longer into the sunrise,try new spots and fish with S-B friends more often.
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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01-01-2008, 11:05 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In the water
Posts: 461
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1. 40# bass
2. 30# bass on fly rod
3. 100# BFT
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01-01-2008, 11:46 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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2 40s in the same day
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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01-01-2008, 01:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Catch a tuna from my tin boat. Break the 50 mark with my feet on the ground.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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01-01-2008, 01:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 178
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1) To get out more.
2) Catch a fish while on my surfboard.
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01-01-2008, 03:01 PM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
Posts: 712
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still hunting for that first fish over 36" lol. hopefully not on a chunk.
mostly meet new people, find new spots, learn new things. same as every year. upping my wood collection can be added. also finding that magical rapala. though it's proving harder than i thought. i've searched every where and just can't find one. i'm going to have to have some one make me a knock off.
edit: welp i can scratch finding the rapala off the list. i just found a couple. going to have to order them from over seas though. as the are the only ones i can find. no dealers in the u.s. seem to carry the color i want.
Last edited by GonnaCatchABig1; 01-01-2008 at 03:23 PM..
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There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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01-01-2008, 03:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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Not to injure myself
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