What fishing/outdoor/etc stuff are you most looking forward to in 2025?

SilverFly said:
With multiple major projects on the property, I'm trying not to plan too much.

Already have 3 tuna trips booked. Hoping for a repeat of late August, early Sept rain which means bright hatchery chinook in a local trib. Usual late Sept, early Oct rain means lots of dark fish. Tons of fun but nothing I'd load the smoker with. Coho a few weeks later in the same trib are always a priority. Other than that I need to start exploring this.

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Yaya do!! Pretty nice to have that in your back yard!!

cheers
 
More tiger muskies, more carp & hopefully some weird Aussie species when we're there in July for a family trip.
 
This year I am excited for the goals I set

1. Try to fish more... Today was day 37 of fishing this year.

2. …and in more varied ways. Thus far I have fished tenkara, spoons, single hand, two hand, and have plans to go chironomid fishing with some awesome forum folks.

I’m taking my kids to south Florida (Naples and the Keys) in April. The youngest wants to catch tarpon on the fly, so that’s gonna be interesting.

and I’m excited for the meetup on May 16/17/18.

I’ve only got the vaguest of plans past May, so who knows what other exiting motivations 2025 holds?
 
I became a member of the Trailblazers last year so starting to plan a stocking trip or two that will involve some hike in creeks/rivers over a few days. Have done quite a bit of research and plan on getting into some tough spots. Hopefully no fires in those areas.

Back to Europe in September to visit family. First stop in Nice to visit my cousin and will spend a day or so on the Verdon River fishing for Zebra trout. Then Greece again for a few weeks visiting my wife’s family and will be up in the mountains on skinny water for a few days fishing for their native Brown trout.

Short term, excited to get more time in my raft and get more comfortable with that and two handed casting. Trips on different sections of the Yakima and NFCDA come spring. Can’t wait to throw some Skwala’s next month.
 
Matt B said:
But a little further afield, I'm planning a trip to fish for giant tarpon out of Homossassa, Florida in late May. I am planning a week down there with my FIL. I'll meet him in ATL and we will drive down to fish and stay with his friend who lives and fishes Central FL, has a nice flats boat, and from the pictures I've seen and the stories I've heard, knows how to get it done. Super stoked for that. Giant tarpon have been on the list for a while.
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You'll be fishing some legendary Florida fly water! Having access to a boat with an experienced local angler is a bonus.

I wish it was possible to travel back in time to fly fish Homosassa in the late 70s into the 80s. Tragic that poorly planned housing developments depleted the fresh ground water flows that supported the food chain attracting those huge migratory tarpon.
 
DimeBrite said:
You'll be fishing some legendary Florida fly water! Having access to a boat with an experienced local angler is a bonus.

I wish it was possible to travel back in time to fly fish Homosassa in the late 70s into the 80s. Tragic that poorly planned housing developments depleted the fresh ground water flows that supported the food chain attracting those huge migratory tarpon.
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Oh, I'm well aware. Not that it makes me an expert or anything but I read Lords of the Fly. I grew up in the Southeast but moved away before I had the chance to get into local or semi-local saltwater. Even though it's apparently a shadow of what it was, it sounds to me like there is still good tarpon fishing to be had. Maybe there won't be thousands of fish pouring into the bay like Tom Evans witnessed, and I don't think we'll be joining crowds casting into the hole at Black Rock, but it should be a good time. I just hope my skinny little 12 weight fly poles are up to the task.
 
Plan on flyfishing NE WA lakes with Ive as much as possible, occasionally accompanied by my son and couple of grown grandchildren.

Will try to replicate a fabulous day catching large Tiger Trout with my oldest grandson that he and I enjoyed last season.

Looking forward to mountain biking Mount Spokane and Riverside State Parks (respectively Washington State's largest and second largest parks), and mtbiking old forest service trails that I rode to abandoned mountain top lookout towers years ago. Lots of work on the way up, but a blast on the way down.

Kayaking the Priest Lake Thorofare to Upper Priest Lake a couple of times with son and grandchildren....and firing up our motorcycles for some area day trips.
 
jeradjames said:
I became a member of the Trailblazers last year so starting to plan a stocking trip or two that will involve some hike in creeks/rivers over a few days. Have done quite a bit of research and plan on getting into some tough spots. Hopefully no fires in those areas.

Back to Europe in September to visit family. First stop in Nice to visit my cousin and will spend a day or so on the Verdon River fishing for Zebra trout. Then Greece again for a few weeks visiting my wife’s family and will be up in the mountains on skinny water for a few days fishing for their native Brown trout.

Short term, excited to get more time in my raft and get more comfortable with that and two handed casting. Trips on different sections of the Yakima and NFCDA come spring. Can’t wait to throw some Skwala’s next month.
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A stocking trip sounds cool…always been interested in that.
 
Goals and plans, ordered by date:
Survive February
Get my underutilized drift boat out on the Yak at least once (hit me up if you know how to row)
Spring SRC via beach trips with the wife and kids
Tapps smallmouth
Cedar river shad
Local humpies
Local coho
Sitka AK! Humpies and coho
Fall SRC

Still tough to find time to fish with two toddlers running my life, but it should be a fun year!
 
I’m taking my wife to Hawaii in 3 weeks…unlikely to fish but I always say that and end up fishing😀.

I have 2 big spring bear hunts on the books including a week with one of my best friends and his herd of pack goats. We haven’t hunted together in a decade and I can’t wait. We will be taking a young man who I coached a few years ago as well. This will be his first backcountry hunt and he’s all kinds of stoked.

The trip I’m the most excited about is an idea I’ve been scheming for almost a year. My oldest son and I are going to backpack fish 31 roadless miles of a river in June. My son is really creative and likes to make short films. Last summer got a job as a film editor and loved it. He was planning to document our trip through film. Then last week the opportunity to hire a professional outdoor videographer presented its self and I jumped on it.

He’s graduating from college in May and getting married in July so this will be a celebration trip for us. We’ve been on the phone for hours in the last week as we’re planning this out.
 
Well...

A couple trips planned already...My favorite river in WA first week of July...fishing the Blackfoot in MT in Aug...Silvers (and maybe bows) in the Aleutians first week of Sept...

Other goals...getting back to the Green either in April UT, or late Sept possibly in WY...fishing for sm or lg bass this year with one or two forum members here...wife is planning a trip to Korea and Japan this year, trying to finagle fishing in both countries (I was born in Seoul in '59 in a US Army hospital there, haven't been back since)...trying to get back to Iceland, possibly on the way to Norway/Finland...first time fishing for src in the sound, with members here...
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Winter South Eastern Rockies 5.5 day road trip with son, Start in El Paso, end in Denver. Along the way, Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands NP, Great Sand Dune NP, maybe some Indian ruins around Taos/Santa Fe. Part of our ongoing study of decline of Pueblo/Anasazi civilization, with me interested in aforementioned big picture and son completely not.

Any must sees on that route please feel free to shoot me a message...

So with that said, there are concessions for him- waffle-maker hotels with like a 50% chance of open-in-winter indoor pools, gas station food, lots of snacks, channel surfing on TV.

And for the both of us, just a near constant of music playing in vehicle

Maybe the weather cooperates, maybe it does not. At some point hamburgers will be eaten, fried chicken too.

Eastern limits Rocks and Sand tour
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Boot, skip mesa verde but go to Chaco and/or Hovenweep. They’re more remote, but you’ll likely find time and space to yourselves.

Personally have a busy spring. Three weeks house sitting in Honolulu, and determined to get ahold of some of the bonefish. Going to also bring a spinning rod to try whipping for trevally and such. Then two weeks in Spain to celebrate our 30th if we make it till then. Only fishing trip booked is for tuna in the fall, but I have good intentions to get my drifter out more this year.
 
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