Fish to knock off the list: 2020

I’m really trying to broaden my bass-oriented horizons this year. There’s a couple of fish that have been waiting to be crossed off my list for several years now. I’ll actually give it a shot this year. Those fish include:

Channel Cat
Flathead Cat
Tiger Muskie
Sauger
Brown Trout
Brook Trout
Tiger Trout
White Sucker
Assorted Redhorse Species
Assorted Buffalo Species
Dogfish (Bowfin)
White Crappie
White Bass
Yellow Bass
Carp
The Elusive Muskie
Creek Chub
Orangespotted Sunfish
Warmouth
Longnose Gar
Shortnose Gar
Lake Whitefish
Cisco

I’m not looking for size. I’m just trying to catch one and move on. If you have any idea how or where to catch one within an hour or so of the metro area, I’d really appreciate it. Are there any fish you’re trying to knock off the list this year?

Thanks,
FDCMN

Returning to Mexico this year to try to cross off Wahoo from my bucket list. In May, headed to LA and try to cross off Redfish. Next week, will spend a late evening on the ice trying for Burbot.

Hoping to knock off sheepshead in Clearwater FL this coming weekend. Maybe a few other species. I’m not a guy that really cares about knocking off species but I’ve been excited to go after sheepshead again after watching a guy battle them last year when I was down there.

Musky! Well for me not necessarily a new species…a species with a new method. I’ve caught a lot of Bass and Pike with a fly rod. This winter I built a 10 weight rod and I’m tying some big flies, hopefully next summer I can hang a Musky.

Good luck with Tiger Trout, that’s a rare one.

S.R.

You should start on pool 2 and the connecting mn river as you have a chance at 8-9 species right there.

Tiger trout, I think your only chance is streams in SE MN. You want a stream with both brooks and browns present obviously.

Tiger muskies are stocked in metro area lakes like nokomis and Harriet.

Your best bet is to hit the lake finder app on the DNR website and start poring over the surveys to see what’s in the lakes.

Drive down to Minneopa Creek near Mankato to get your chub and you have a shot at like 8 of the fish on your list all using the same presentation. If you direct message me, I can give you a specific spot as well.

Tiger Muskie – they are, in theory, present naturally in any system that has a pure strain muskie and northern pike…but realistically you should pick a lake that the DNR stocks with them. There’s about a dozen, mostly in the greater metro area. I’ve caught a few of them the past three seasons (all by accident bass fishing). The current state record is from Lake Elmo in Washington County. Here’s a 33 incher from last July.

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tangler wrote:

Tiger muskies are stocked in metro area lakes like nokomis and Harriet.

City lakes like Harriet and Calhoun are stocked with pure strains, not tigers. I thought that too and then looked it up. Nokomis is in fact stocked with tigers, along with 10 other lakes.

Green Sunfish
Snook

Gimruis, you’ve caught some nice Tigers the last few years. One of the prettiest freshwater fish. I would like to catch a Tiger, Wiper or Peacock Bass this year..

Frydog62, my personal best Wiper, trolling a Rattle Trap.

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Dave what was the weight and length?

That’s a heck of a fish, might have to get after them one of these years.

The existence of the Wiper will be news to people here in the midwest who call white bass “stripers.”

St Croix/Mississippi will cover majority of that list.

I’ve already got two new species this year, white crappie and cisco. Even though I have caught them before I would like to get better at fishing for musky and brown trout.

So each of the last two seasons I’ve had lake trout and musky. Got lake trout off the list in September. Musky however…. still have the cellophane wrapper on the net I bought Will this be the year I finally put some real time in the hunt?

That looks like a great list for 3 weeks 9 hours. As far as a personal list I would like to pick up a trout this year. I have 80% of the MN fish already knocked off the list.
Since your name is Fishingdakotacountyn I am guessing you are in Dakota county. If that is the case I can help with muskies and Tiger muskies.

Gag grouper. Catch and cook!

SuperDave1959 wrote:

Returning to Mexico this year to try to cross off Wahoo from my bucket list. In May, headed to LA and try to cross off Redfish. Next week, will spend a late evening on the ice trying for Burbot.

Those Wahoo are a crazy fast fish. Got the chance to fish Wahoo, Mahi mahi, and Tuna a few years back in the Bahamas. One of the most fun fishing outings I’ve ever been on. We hooked a Wahoo. and it rain probably 100 yards to the right of the boat and in the blink of a eye it turned and was 100 yards to the left of the boat in just a few seconds. In addition they are beautiful fish and really tasty. On our final night on the bahamas trip we ate Wahoo, Mahi mahi, tuna, Snapper, Fresh caught lobster and stone crabs, and a cowboy ribeye. I’ve never enjoyed a meal more in my life. Good luck to you on your trip

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Returning to Mexico this year to try to cross off Wahoo from my bucket list. In May, headed to LA and try to cross off Redfish. Next week, will spend a late evening on the ice trying for Burbot.

Those Wahoo are a crazy fast fish. Got the chance to fish Wahoo, Mahi mahi, and Tuna a few years back in the Bahamas. One of the most fun fishing outings I’ve ever been on. We hooked a Wahoo. and it rain probably 100 yards to the right of the boat and in the blink of a eye it turned and was 100 yards to the left of the boat in just a few seconds. In addition they are beautiful fish and really tasty. On our final night on the bahamas trip we ate Wahoo, Mahi mahi, tuna, Snapper, Fresh caught lobster and stone crabs, and a cowboy ribeye. I’ve never enjoyed a meal more in my life. Good luck to you on your trip

Thanks! Last year was a pretty good year for the list. Checked boxes on the Dorado, Tuna, Tarpon and Snook. To date, the tuna was the hardest fighting fish of my life! My arms were so sore the next day that I didn’t even want to reel in a fish.

King Salmon, Brown Trout, Lakers and Rainbows. Have a family trip to Sheboygan, Wi and booked a morning charter. Battling big fish will be fun for my 7 and 9 year old.

Small fish are the gateway drug to bigger and bigger fish. Addicted and chasing the rush.

My Florida trip went well and I knocked off sheepshead, speckled trout, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, and Black Sea bass while I was down there. It’s unreal how much harder saltwater fish fight than freshwater. Fun few days of fishing.

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