For me, a good day of fishing is one that ends with the boat still floating and everyone healthy and relatively happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have bigger goals and dreams. Of course I love to go out and catch awesome fish. Who doesn’t?
If you’ve been fishing for long enough to catch at least one fish, you probably have some goal species you’d like to catch. Many of us have more than a few. Call it a bucket list for anglers.
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