Your bucket list

mcswny said:
Yep, thats how I usually handle it.

I'll usually get up and be on the water at first light, back to the airbnb by the time family is waking up, I head back out during my kids naptime, and then after she goes to bed. it works!
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You're going to love it when they are old enough to go fishing with you. It's such a blast.
 
swimmy said:
I get it, it is not Iceland, Belize, Russia etc. But if any of you ever make it to SW Montana, you have an open seat in my boat. Regardless if we've gone round and round on the net, in real life I go out of my way to play a good host. It is my way of giving something back to the community.

That even goes for the folks that have me on ignore.
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Beware what you wish for...I may hit you up on this...
 
Long_Rod_Silvers said:
You're going to love it when they are old enough to go fishing with you. It's such a blast.
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My daughter is 8 now. I have the echo gecko rod for her to use. you bet she's going to get some casting in and hopefully catching! We've done lots of lake fishing and she's caught plenty of fish. Her first was on a scooby doo zebco pole that was 3 ft long at the most. caught at a notorious lake in western washington, fish was 18" and i'm surprised the rod didn't pull out of her hand.
 
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I've already knocked a few off my bucket list, including Iceland, upper Patagonia in Argentina...and the Katmai in AK (several times, now an annual trip)...I've booked and attempted to go to Kamchatka twice, both times having the trip cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances...

Still on my list:

New Zealand
Tasmania
Chile
Seychelles
Tetairoa
 
Chris Johnson said:
Missoula is a nice town, lost of good fishing close by.
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Yeah, but it's starting to get crowded. It used to be a sleepy place but not anymore. The fishing is OK but not the crowds. I went there last year as I wanted something from Cabela's. It took a long time to get back to the freeway and get the hell out of there. I just won't go there again.
 
I don't love long distance travel. I have never cared about going somewhere tropical and swinging a 9-10 wt all day hoping for 1 or 2 fish. Sure I would love to go after big bows in AK or fish some of the meadow streams that I see @swimmy and others from MT post reports and pictures, or catching big browns on a streamer in a small stream, and a trip like that is probably realistic at some point. But while this is a bit corny, my bucket list trips are just more time spent on a small cutty stream with a 4wt. A couple of the best trips of my life are SW Alberta, SE BC, ID, a 4wt and a cutthroat stream. I love the mountains, the remoteness, and the scenery. I have hiked into a meadow full of elk, almost had a elk calf take me out as she came down the hill and hit the trail I was hiking, had a wolf come up the other side of a small stream and just stare at me like I was an alien, seen bears, moose, cats, had a beaver more than once slap their tail at me from about 2' away when I didn't see them coming up a stream about 4' across, and many more stories like that. Some trips are solo, some are with 1 -2 good friends, most are small mountain streams with lite rods. Sitting around a campfire over good food, and chatting till it is the middle of the night. Reading a Louis L'Amour book around the campfire. A couple of my best trips have been late Oct camping and we get snowed on but catch cutties all day. I just want more of those trips.
The photos below are from some of these trips.
 

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swimmy said:
I get it, it is not Iceland, Belize, Russia etc. But if any of you ever make it to SW Montana, you have an open seat in my boat. Regardless if we've gone round and round on the net, in real life I go out of my way to play a good host. It is my way of giving something back to the community.

That even goes for the folks that have me on ignore.
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I need to get my head out of my ass and come visit you this year…
 
Spend a week up in Hayward, WI musky country.

A close second would be spend a week down in Baja...even if all I catch are jacks....just gimme stuff down there that pulls hard.
 
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Sette Cama
 
sal_the_salmon said:
i always wanted to catch a wild steelhead on the hoh or solduc

but i think that ship has sailed. I should have put in more time when it was not entirely ruined.
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You can still do that, it'll just take patience and an investment of time and brainpower. The best way to support those rivers is to get out there, fish them with a conservation mindset and advocate for meaningful change as opposed to fiddling round the edges with sportfishing regs.
 
DimeBrite said:
Sette Cama
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Had to Google the place as it seem quite out of place and never heard of it before but it apparently has some top notch fishing..

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Sette Cama, Gabon – 24 to 30 November 2016 - African Fishing | Fishing travel experts | African Waters

The 2015/2016 season was one of the best seasons we’ve had in Gabon, and even though that season is in now in the past, it was clear that the first week of the 2016/2017 season picked up exactly where we left off a couple months earlier. In near perfect conditions, the week was
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Mine isn’t so much location-based as it is species-based with a couple of twists:

To be checked-off:
1. Fish must be “to hand”. No LDR equivocating.
2. Must be caught on a fly tied by a family member (sons, or myself).

Which means I have to re-catch a number of these.


☐ Billfish


☐ False Albacore


☐ GT


☐ Golden Dorado


☐ Musky


☐ Pickerel


☐ Rooster fish


☐ Wahoo



Edit: Randy says it's "musky". Also, removed fish that had been caught according to the listed conditions.
 
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Thomas Mitchell said:
You can still do that, it'll just take patience and an investment of time and brainpower. The best way to support those rivers is to get out there, fish them with a conservation mindset and advocate for meaningful change as opposed to fiddling round the edges with sportfishing regs.
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it would also take me discarding all my ethics and morals
 
Pavonnes (surfing) - the worlds longest left? I'm goofy and can't surf a right to save my life but a mile long left sounds pretty rad

Amazon tribs for peacock bass - my step-father died down there on an exploratory trip in the jungle before I had a chance to join him and my mom on a fishing trip (they used to spend a couple months a year there and my mom used to co-hold an IGFA line class record)

Haida Gwaii - indigenous culture, cool scenery and fishing as the icing on top

Dean - Chinook, 'cause I've never been spooled but would love for it to happen

Kamchatka - I love riding in scary old helicopters
 
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