Fishing Bucket List

**DeathVan** · 02-27-2014, 01:58 PM

There are many species I have never had a chance to fish but right now the Golden Dorado is on the top of my list.

What's on your list?

**schwerty** · 02-27-2014, 03:20 PM

Tiger fish and Taimen have been calling my name. Anyone want to go to Mongolia?

**STLHD** · 02-27-2014, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by DeathVan

There are many species I have never had a chance to fish but right now the Golden Dorado is on the top of my list.

What's on your list?

That's been on my list for a while. Specifically, locations that target them in fast flowing freshwater. Such a cool fish.

Others are less exotic, but more expensive: Atlantics on the kola andsteelhead on the dean/skeena

**DeathVan** · 02-27-2014, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by schwerty

Tiger fish and Taimen have been calling my name. Anyone want to go to Mongolia?

Well those are intense!

I'm in. Whose plane are we taking?

**schwerty** · 02-27-2014, 04:32 PM

Let me look into that. Maggot timeshare plane?

**snapt** · 02-27-2014, 04:45 PM

Notched my Dean River steelhead trip last year so I'm trying to decide what comes in after that.

Atlantics in Iceland would be sweet. Kamchatka is up there. Mongolian high desert rivers look sweet. Some GT fishing on some remote African Ocean pirate free island. Gold Coast Australia. I could go on. More realistically NZ or Patagonia since I'm on a spring creek kick of late.

**2FUNKY** · 02-27-2014, 07:34 PM

Golden Dorado on moving water like that vid would be sweet. Hopefully in June I will check off one of my top 3, which is Drum.

**teleee** · 02-28-2014, 12:38 PM

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I'm still working on this one. After I tick him off then I can think about more exotic types.

Hugh Conway · 02-28-2014, 01:33 PM

A canoe trip down the Moisie. Fish for Atlantic salmon.

fish for whatever trout remain in India. mahseer in India.

trout in scotland/england

**DeathVan** · 02-28-2014, 02:04 PM

I like the diversity, but why some many boners for the Atlantic salmon?

-I know an island you can catch all sorts of bigger rowdier salmon on.

@Hugh, I like the adventure component and the atypical fisheries suggestion

Hugh Conway · 02-28-2014, 02:28 PM

for me history. both of the fishing, and because I read "The Complete Wilderness Paddler" as a kid (classic 70s manual of canoe tripping). getting drunk on cider and flinging flies to trout in the Pyrenees has appeal too.

**STLHD** · 02-28-2014, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

for me history.

Similar for me. The flies and and the methods that originated out of Atlantic salmon fishing add something to it, for me. Also, I grew up in Maine and they were long gone before I had a chance to fish for them. They've taken a kind of mythical place in my mind. Plus, I enjoy anadramous fish that don't die after they spawn. May be self-justification, but it seems more sporting.

**snapt** · 02-28-2014, 03:50 PM

Anadromous fish that eat dry flies are rad.

**whitekingsalmon** · 03-17-2014, 02:03 PM

**whitekingsalmon** · 03-17-2014, 02:19 PM

30,000 pounds, humpys,, ,,one day fish,august 2013 kodiak

**dtown** · 03-17-2014, 03:03 PM

Right now with a 4 & 2 year old and one on the way, just getting out feels like I'm checking something off the bucket list. The only thing that hasn't been mentioned that's on my list is a xc ski/ camp/ ice fish tour of the boundary waters in March for lake trout.

**whitekingsalmon** · 03-18-2014, 10:06 AM

wanna clarify them pics I posted aint no bucket list, well they could be..,,was tryin to find some place to post some stoke fishin pics.

**snapt** · 03-18-2014, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by whitekingsalmon

wanna clarify them pics I posted aint no bucket list, well they could be..,,was tryin to find some place to post some stoke fishin pics.

Where those from?

**ak_powder_monkey** · 03-20-2014, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by DeathVan

-I know an island you can catch all sorts of bigger rowdier salmon on.

One sort of salmon are bigger than atlantics, and they don't take dry flies that often. Plus with Atlantics there is history, tradition, and (for me at least) when I see them I don't just see dollar bills like I see pacific salmon.

My List:
First priorities:
-Sheefish
-Burbot

-Steelhead on topwater
-40" O mykis
-I would really like to catch every subspecies of cutthroat one could possibly catch
-Atlantic
-Marble trout
-Anything in Kamchatka
-Taimen
-High Sierra goldens
-Halibut on a fly
-Lincod on a fly
-Saltwater Nookie on a fly
-A native completely wild brown trout in europe
-sea trout
-Musky
-Largemouth bass on a fly rod (seriously)
And a carp, there is just something about them

Oh and the bonefish and all that saltwater tropical stuff, not so much for the fishing, but because I haven't been warm in about 15 years (not that that's a bad thing)

**Pow4Brains** · 03-23-2014, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by DeathVan

I like the diversity, but why some many boners for the Atlantic salmon?

Some believe their days on this planet are numbered too.

**steved** · 03-23-2014, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by DeathVan

I like the diversity, but why some many boners for the Atlantic salmon?...

Not my first choice DV, but from Maine....Gaspe Peninsula, NewBrunswick, southern Quebec and Labrador are shorter drives...plus I'm not getting that many FF days as in decades gone by... Guess I should get my pilot's license asap = doesn't sound like a bad idea! Make the commute time even shorter.