Bucket List

[kc]

Only saw this movie a few weeks ago and really made me stop and think, maybe it's been done before but what is everyones fishing "Bucket list".

I've been pretty fortunate to have ticked most of mine off by accident over the years but still have a bonefish on fly (planning new calendonia this September), a "Hobart" (Sydney to Hobart yacht race)...yes I know it's not fishing but it is related and planned for 2011 and a big trout in a NZ crystal clear stream....one day!!

KC

[PinHead]

mine..nothing.
Have done a few other things I wanted ..but as for anything on the fishing front i na bucket list..nothing. If a fish is stupid enough to commit suicide on a line i have in the water then it deserves it.

I thought that was top film.

[HeadBanger]

I don't have a set bucketlist, but each year I set new goals for my fishing.

This year's are to catch at least one mangrove jack, 70 fish in total, at least one fish on soft plastics (which I just recently completed) and to learn how to make batter (not exactly a fish, but still fishing related.)

Thanks,
Kaidon

[Damned67]

and to learn how to make batter (not exactly a fish, but still fishing related.)


Kaidon, there's an excellent recipe on here for Beer batter (search for it), and it's really simple.. Goes awesome with Flathead!

[snasman]

Im yet to catch a dolphin fish and would love to catch anything that i could photograph that is taller than myself except a shark ive had several of them up next to the boat I want a keeper. and at least 2 moses perch each trip out since the daughter has discovered there eating quality that way I'll get to eat one aswell.

[Donny Boy]

At the moment, I'd settle for catching anything that's a keeper, then I could die a happy man.

Gawd,.......I probably wouldn't throw a size 10 boot back, if I hooked one. :P

Mind you....

I've heard if you boil those bastards for a year or 2, they get a bit tender. ::)

[snodger 08]

Catch a legal Barra, preferably 3 to get ahead of the Mrs. Go and fish around Broome, and do a road trip in the U.S. on the bass trail.
Just hope my bank account can catch up with my bucket list.
Steve

[BucketListJnr]

My old man had terminal pancreatic cancer and passed away last year. He had 15 months of good fishing time though and in the week after he was diagnosed he compiled a bucket list of 101 fish he wanted to catch before he died. When he died, I took over the list. He managed to get 38 species.

This is the list.
1.Australian Bass
2.Catfish
3.Murray Cod
4.Mary River Cod
5.Long Finned Eel
6.Sooty Grunter
7.Jungle Perch
8.Golden Perch
9.Macquarie Perch
10.Redfin
11.Atlantic Salmon
12.Saratoga
13.Brown Trout
14.Rainbow Trout
15.Brook Trout
16.Elephant Fish
17.Eagle Ray
18.Shovelnose Ray
19.Sawfish
20.Skate
21.Barramundi
22.Bonefish
23.Black Bream
24.Yellowfin Bream
25.Estuary Cod
26.Dart
27.Drummer
28.Fingermark
29.Flathead
30.Flounder
31.Hairtail
32.Giant Herring
33.Javelin Fish
34.Black Jewfish
35.Leatherjacket
36.Long Tom
37.Luderick
38.Mangrove Jack
39.Morwong
40.Mullet
41.Mulloway
42.Moses Perch
43.Pike
44.Queenfish
45.Australian Salmon
46.Threadfin Salmon
47.Tailor
48.Tarpon
49.Tarwhine
50.Big Eye Trevally
51.Bluefin Trevally
52.Giant Trevally
53.Golden Trevally
54.Silver Trevally
55.Thicklip Trevally
56.Tripletail
57.Trumpeter
58.Turrum
59.Whiting
60.King George Whiting
61.Barramundi Cod
62.Coral Cod
63.Flowery Cod
64.John Dory
65.Dhufish
66.Bluespot Emperor
67.Red Emperor
68.Spangled Emperor
69.Sweetlip
70.Baldchin Groper
71.Groper
72.Hapuku
73.Red Gurnard
74.Jobfish
75.Nannygai
76.Parrotfish
77.Pearl Perch
78.Crimson Seaperch
79.Snapper
80.Coral Trout
81.Coronation Trout
82.Tuskfish
83.Wrasse
84.Albacore
85.Amberjack
86.Bonito
87.Cobia
88.Yellow Tail Kingfish
89.Spanish Mackeral
90.Spotted Mackeral
91.Mahi Mahi
92.Black Marlin
93.Blue Marlin
94.Striped Marlin
95.Sailfish
96.Samson Fish
97.Swordfish
98.Sunfish
99.Southern Bluefin Tuna
100.Yellowfin Tuna
101.Wahoo

[tim barra master]

I am still recovering from the bruises from when i refered to the wife as the sequal the next day

[BrewGuru]

I have been pretty lucky, I trolled the East Coast of Queensland from Scarborough to Thursday Island at 8 knots, caught some nice spaniards, blue Fin, and long tail tuna, caught Barra in Cairns, some nice muddies at Portland Roads.
Caught a few Mahi Mahi off Brisbane and my PB Cobia of Moreton at 35lbs.
I reckon I wouldn't mind having a go at some game fishing, but if unexpectantly I finished up on the wrong side of the grass I would be a pretty happy man.
What a great movie! it was the inspiration behind my trip to TI, since that movie I also travelled on the Ghan and went on a cruise ship from Brisbane and Vanuatu
and back. That movie did a lot for the tourism industry :)

[Bear001]

Always wanted to do the 'Swains Reef' trip - it was something my late father did, but unfortunately I dont have a big enough gang of my own (all my lot have kiddies and therefore money dramas) and the crew that go from my old home town wont have a shiela on board.

One day...one day!

[goanna1]

1/34 self raising flour 1 stubbie beer or ginger beer 1 teaspoon slat or curry powder if you need to cut down on the salt.

enjoy

[kc]

Sitting on 72 of your 101 and could maybe add another 20 or so. Been a good ride to this point.

KC

[tunaticer]

My bucket list does not exist, I have caught enough fish to last several lifetimes but every few months i set myself a new goal to achieve. Currently my goal is a overnight yak fishing session at Mud Island after snapps. Won't be this weekend but it will be before Easter.
My 2nd goal is a jew over 20lb from Redcliffe Peninsula.

I don't care if I do not live long enough to achieve any goals, but I know I will have plenty of enjoyment doing what i love.

[griz066]

Have/Had 4 things on the Bucket List
1. Swains Reef Trip..............Tick that off done it in 2009 going again in 2010
2. Take wife on cruise
3. Go to Melbourne Cup.......Ticking both in late October 2010, booked us on a Melbourne Cup Cruise Newcastle to Sydney To Melbourne To Sydney 8 days.
4. Play a round of Golf at The Royal & Ancient St Andrews in Scotland while the wife is shopping in Paris. Plans are to do this in 7 years time when we both turn the big 50.

[PinHead]

main thing is..stay alive long enough to annoy the wife for another 30 years.

[choppa]

main thing is..stay alive long enough to annoy the wife for another 30 years.


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