Well that's an achievement!

[frawlz]

Have been making a list of the things I'd really like to achieve in my personal fishing journey. It's not complete. I need suggestions and education. I'm sure there are things more experienced anglers hold as great personal achievements which i have never even imagined as a goal and I'd like to know about them.

The important thing for my list is that it's achievable (for me), and measurable. I want my list of things to be challengeing and rewarding and I want to look back when I'm finished (whenever that may be) and feel happy about doing it.

I need my list to be achieveable without requiring equipment or expenses outside my means.

Assuming that a bloke has a tinny of their own, reasonable fishing gear and an average wage/pension and the usual family committments, what would you add/detract from my list?


Here is my list so far.
Each achievement has a title.
Some of them can be completed simultaneously/adjacently.
Wherever this is a ? I need more suggestions.

-The one that got away;
Catch a
>1m wild murray cod
>1m Barra
>1m Jewfish/Mulloway
>60cm Bass
>60cm Yellowbelly
>1kg Murray crayfish (thx Mrs Ronnie H)

-Bread and butter;-
Bag out on each of the following species of fish....
Whiting
Bream
flatty
Yellowbelly
Bass
Tailor

-Fresh is best -
catch one of each of the following freshwater species,
Yellowbelly
Bass
Spangled perch
Eeltail catfish
Saratoga
Barra
Redfin (thx Mrs Ronnie H)
?

-Estuarine lurker -
catch one of each of the following
Summer whiting
Winter whiting
flathead
bream
garfish
estuary cod
trevally
queenfish
Threadfin Salmon
Mangrove Jack

Old man and the sea;
Catch one of each of the following
tailor
red emporer
snapper
mackerel
Bluefin Tuna (thx Lucky Loz)
Coral Trout (thx Lucky Loz)
?

-light touch;
Catch something bigger than 6lb on a 4lb line.

-skull drag;
Catch something bigger than 25lb on a handline.

-Winners are grinners
win a fishing competition

-all over red rover;
catch a fish in each of the following locations
a dam
a river
a reef
off the rocks
off the beach
?

-explorer
travel more than 1000ks to a fishing spot

-Fishy state of affairs
Catch a fish in every Australian state.

-Dam it;
catch a fish in at least 10 different stocked impoundments

-Mr Pinchy
bag out on redclaw

-Destructor destruction
bag out on yabbies (blueclaw)

-case of the crabs
bag out on muddies

-come the raw prawn
catch prawn with a cast net

-eating the bait
catch and eat -mullet, prawns, pippis, blueclaw yabbies, ?

-big bro
take a kid fishing and they catch a fish

-Old man river
catch a fish each in at least 20 separate Australian river systems.

-fish wife
Take your wife fishing and have her catch a trophy(in her opinion) fish.

ED- Jumping Jack Flash
Catch a Mangrove Jack on a cast lure. thx STUIE63

ED-Plastic Fantastic
Catch five different species on plastics thx Tunaticer


ED- A hard body is good to find
Catch five different species on hardbaits thx Tunaticer
? to be listed

ED- Spin cycle
Catch five different species on spinners thx Tunaticer

ED- Fly Blown
Learn how to flyfish.
Tie a fly
Catch a fish on my own fly
Catch a Saratoga on a fly
Catch a Trout on a fly
thx Tunaticer

ED- Camp Cook
Cook the catch for mates on at least 5 trips.
Cook a wild river fish on coals on the banks of the river from which it was caught.
Cook a reef fish in palm leaves
thx Sheik

ED- A recipe for trouble.
Find five different ways to cook redclaw
Find five different ways to BBQ your catch
Prepare 10 different species in ten different ways.
thx Sheik










Really looking forward to any and all suggestions.


ED: assume a 10yr sort of timeframe

ED: keep em coming

[tunaticer]

How about adding species to catch on plastics, on hard body lures, on fly and on home made baits??

[Funchy]

Hey Frawlz,
As I say to my kids, "how bout ya finish that off and then we will discuss whats next." Lol. Seriously though, a great bucket list mate. How many of them do you reckon you have already ticked off?

[frawlz]

lure selection sounds good mate, got reccomendations for target species for each sort?


ED: I probably got a bunch of it ticked off in the past but I'll have to do them and document them. (pics or it didn't...)

[Gon Fishun]

It all looks very achievable, but in my opinion you might require a longer time frame.
That is a lot of rivers and dams to get around and catch and bag out in, in 10 years.
Wish you all the best and have fun.

[STUIE63]

get a jack on a cast lure they hit like a freight train and aren't shy to fight dirty

[MudRiverDan]

Catch a fish before the pro netters bag em all... now that's an achievement!

[Dan5]

I don't think you really need to "bag out" on any one species to consider that you have done a good job or that you are a complete/competent fisherman............Possibly just to have caught one of whatever you targeted would be a realistic achievement given a certain circumstance.

When we fish for Barra up here at certain times of the year we can and have frequently caught over 150 fish for the day........it's not remarkable it's more than do able and will be done again........Other times of the year like now in the dry when the weather is cold it is considered to even raise fish on some days as a success.......


All i'm saying is you don't need to gauge your success on the amount of fish caught but rather the conditions and technique you used.......wether it be fly.plastic.bait or handline or even noodling.


Cheers Dan

[Sheik]

the first one should be "draw up a fishing bucket list".
I like the lures, plastics etc comment, that makes sense.
Also, perhaps a one metre cod is much more rare than a 1m barra, I'd perhaps be going with catch a murray cod in the murray darling system. That's an achievement right there. And will be getting harder every year.
Maybe also catch a yellowbelly and cook him in alfoil/coals in a winter's night.
There are also plenty of Dudd things I could suggest, like forget to put the bungs in, forget to put the rods in, forget to put the cast net in, forget to bring the beer (this has never happened but it might), forget to keep your hands away from sharp knives/hooks/glass. I don't reckon you've fished until you've done a few of those things.

[frawlz]

I don't think you really need to "bag out" ....

Cheers Dan

You're right, I'm not a fan of wastefull fishing. I do like to eat fish though and I've tried to limit the 'bag out' things to species that would suffer little from my takeing a bag limit. For example, 10 yellowbellies is a regular take in some of my fishing spots and is a gratefully received protein addition to my family's diet. I wouldn't take more than a couple of silvers or tandans though, there's not so many of them in the wild. A Bag of bass is two so that's a low impact sort of achievement. My thing is i only take what i can reasonably foresee myself and my family eating in the next month from species which are fairly stable where I'm taking them.

[Mrs Ronnie H]

Hi
How about a Murray cray fish while you hunt for that big cod. A few redfin while you're about it and a few yabbies as well.

good luck with it

Ronnie

[Lucky Loz]

Don't forget Coral Trout, mate the best eating I reckon. And a Bluefin Tuna/ Longtail is an amazing fish to catch as the speed they pull line off is fantastic.