I have a couple bucket list fish:
Roosterfish
GT
Arctic Grayling
Golden Trout
Permit
Muskellunge



Let's hear some of yours.

Atlantic salmon
Cobia
Smallmouth bass
Halibut
Swordfish

My list is probably weirder than most

The rest of the Inland Cutthroat:
Greenback
Rio Grande
Paiute
Any other I've missed
Arctic Grayling
Any Esocid
Smallmouth-and any of its close relatives like Red-eyed
Pumpkinseed
Golden Trout
Apache Trout
Gila Trout

I've caught Golden trout....had to hike a long way to do so.

My list is short: Lake Washington sockeye again (knowing our WDFW, it'll probably never happen)

I've been fortunate to have caught almost all of the above North American species, save a couple of the extreme outlier trout species (Gila & Apache). I checked off a bucket list fish last week. A keeper Ling. I've caught many non-slot sized Lings in the past, but never one for the cooler.

My list:
20 lb. steelhead [ ]
Rooster
Grander Blue Marlin
Peacock Bass
Golden Dorado
Arapaima
Payara
Sturgeon
Artic Char
Taimen

I'm sure there's more, but the above list should keep my busy until my end days. If I have one more 20 lb Steelhead caught directly behind me in the slot I'm going to lose it. Fuckin' Rico!

PS my favorite all time fish to catch will always be the Colorado Greenback in the exact headwaters were they found the last remaining pocket of Greenies post "extinction". There is truly no better fish on this planet than a high elevation 8" Greenie that took your home spun Elk Hair Caddis from the Elk you took the previous fall. I'd rather catch one of those fish than any 20 lb SH or Grander Blue. It's as close to heaven as I've found.

Redfish
Striper
Tarpon
Snook
Sea Trout
GT
Musky
Northern Pike

SF

I saw a video where fish counter volunteers caught them in Silver King creek. Gorgeous fish!

Yeah, my idea of heaven is one of those native fish (I lean to trout) in their native water on a fly I tied. Net, photograph, release, and repeat.

Would add that it was really exciting to get a spawning male Arctic Char last fall. While I adore cutthroat, the char (at least Brookies and Arctics) do color up well for spawning. My wife caught a male brookie in Joffe Lake in Yellowstone that was way beyond any highly colored example I'd ever seen. Talk about eye candy.

The Lahontans we have in the Sierras are gorgeous,and I caught one in the 33 inch range. Pretty cool.

Either swinging up one of those wild atlantics or a sea run brown hands down.

As stoopid and silly as this sounds, this would be my bucket list as of today:

Durado (any)
Halibut over 100 lbs
King salmon over 70 lbs (in river)
King salmon over 40 lbs (in the salt)
20+lb coho (chrome to chromish. Not hooked nose fire engine red)
Roosterfish from the shore
1,000+lb. tuna (any species)

Since I've already pulled off the 30lb. steelhead thing, might as well shoot for a new state record steelhead. Unofficial, of course, as it would be a monster wild fish and just taped and released.

Bob pulled it off....

Beta.

Goldfish.

Naw. Going to have to be Carl. Have you seen how many 30+lb fish that guys pulls out of the rivers every year????

Parker rumor has it you've already nailed a pair of 500 lb plus tuna in one night.

I'm fvckin dying. That was gold.

Tarpon
Great White
30# Steelhead
Halibut
Ling
any Cutt over 4 pounds


Parker, ive hooked Coho that were in excess of 20 pounds, and mint bright... ill tell you one thing, they dont fvck around thats for sure.... largest ones ive landed are 16-19... both chrome, and not so chrome...

You mean 7in trouser trout. ...Roasted

Maybe swing a smallmouth vagina on the surface and I'll bite.
Save the dicks for when Dan fishing is open. Or if your ever hungry and forget your lunch you could snack on a couple of those dicks.

I'm just green with envy. I wonder how many fish 30ish are landed? I would guess around 3%....who knows.

Are you being serious ?

Have you no respect? The man has a family that supposedly loves him.

Two 500 pounders is close enough to a single grander. The Jackhammer strikes again!

Fish Lake WA during the September Coho season and you'll get your 5 pounder. Lots of em' in there from 5 - 10. Just don't eat em' unless you want to glow in the dark.

Tarpon
Bonefish
Permit
Roosterfish
Cobia
Swordfish
Sailfish
Marlin
Tuna (any species)
Sea run brown
Muskie
Pike
Golden Dorado
Giant Trevally (or any trevally)

Should I think about moving?

Rent free.

I own you, bitch.

Lord, I ain't asking for much:

a Cowlitz River smelt

Just saying that if you check the man's Facebook page, he seems to land about 15 or so 30 pounders a season.





Fixed that for ya.

Now that I am 50, I'm slowing down a bit. Three women at a time is my limit these days. I think a 5-some would kill me now.



Never caught or netted a smelt. Never caught a blackmouth either.
Don't think either will make my bucket list.

LOL

I'd like a 105lb - 110lb mermaid with a nice adipose.
Well, a pair of nice adiposes.

Those are easy to catch .

Especially the crack ho's.

You don't own sh!t except that double ender you share with your cheer boys you talk so much about. If someone swang their wang in your face you would inhale it. We all know this.

Once hooked up with an very large Wahoo jigging for Blackfin. It dumped an entire 50 wide in like 3 seconds and cut the leader. It was probably a good 90 - 100 pounds. Jaw dropping speed. I think the only faster fish I've ever fought were large Sails.

There are sure a lot of interesting fish listed here. I guess I have a "bucket list" of what I think k I want to catch, based on what I have enjoyed in the past. Then there are the others like tarpon, bones, even marlin.

Maybe the best I can say is "pretty fish, caught in pretty place".

I completely forgot that someday, somehow, something will actually hit my fly while beach fishing in Kona. Just one, just anything. Until I catch it and then "just one more".

TARPON GO APE SHEET WHEN HOOKED. I'm looking forward to retiring next year. Tucson in the winter and FL in early summer.


BOOM !!!

You are of retirement age and you post sh!t like BOOM??

Coming from a crack head is golden. Why you were getting high I was climbing the ladder and investing.....hater


Two pensions and S/S, I can live like a king. You're not fooling anyone here. You're still hitting the stem. Snap, crack,pop.

BOOOOOOM !!!

XXXXXXXXX WRONG!!!!! One of the oh so many things you're dead wrong about. How do you know what a stem is? I see a closet crack smoker here folks lol.

TOP DEFINITION
crack stem
A pipe made from a tire gauge or metal piping to smoke crack cocaine in
Wanna hit this crack stem bro
##crack##happypipe##crackstem
by Biggest pot head November 08, 2017

FIFY.

Two pensions equals two very small pensions. Ive never heard of a decent pension that did not require a life of work at the company.

You've obviously never heard of a Longshoreman, or anyone that works for the Port of Seattle.



Ok, not really laughing.

FIFY - I've worked for the state for 30 years now and do NOT have a pension and have never been part of any union. I have contributed to a 401K since I was 21 that will be worth well over a million (fingers crossed!) when I decide to "retire" post 65 years old.....presuming the market doesn't crash. In that case, I will have Jack and Sheeit and Jack left town with my money!



This may be your only "Boom" I agree with, SD. Good for you on retiring and going someplace warm! The older I get, the more I hate the cold.

You'll still have the internets when you retire, so I can't wait to see all the warm-water Florida fish photos you will regail us with.

Damn Stam, you be sharing all your secrets!!

"That's like painting lips on your hand with lipstick and jacking off.... then tellin' your bro's you got blown."


Wholly chit!!!
This really works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!