-Fly fish with as many FAOLers as possible
-Build a cedar strip canoe with John White
-Just GOT to get into Hatches favorite “swamp” with him!!!
-Live to see at least ONE of my grandchildren grow to adulthood sharing my love of fly fishing.
Mike
Heck Mike. If I get to fly fish with you. That’ll be enough. 
Okay, so maybe I’d also like to have a nice 7 1/2’ 5wt glass rod. Maybe a McFarland.
A float trip out West somewhere.
Night fish for big browns down in Arkansas.
Dave,
I haven’t fished in Iowa since 1978, & that was with spinning gear on the Mississippi in MacGregor & Turkey Creek (or is it “river”). I’d just LOVE to get out there & wet a fly line with you! We are going to have to talk about this.
Mike
I saw the movie Bucket List and have to say it sure makes you think about what your priorities are, and what other people’s priorities are for you. Life is fragile and we “…know not the hour…,” so we should live live to the fullest, and leave this earth better for having lived here.
To that end, I would enjoy going to my ancestral country, Slovenia, and fish the Soca in the Julian Alps with family members I have never met. I just know there’s got to be a few of them that are as passionate about fly fishing as I am.
Joe
Joe
If those shots are from your home country then PLSE PLSE adopt me and take me with you!!!
If not the what the heck I still want to go…
I’m with Mike - I’d like to fish with as many FAOL’ers as possible. Already fished with three and have had a great time and I’m lucky enough to now call them my friends.
As for the bucket list for waters to fish? Other than Alaska, I’d really like to hit Patagonia and fish with our friends in NZ and Australia. And if they ever have some momentary lapse in judgement and want to fish SE Ohio & SW Indiana - I’d love to take them around.
And for the record - I really, really hate Doug. It’s not often that you can go fishing for trout then take a short walk across a meadow and have a nice geyser “hot tub” soak in 200 degree water.
jimmadsen,
QUOTE; And for the record - I really, really hate Doug. It’s not often that you can go fishing for trout then take a short walk across a meadow and have a nice geyser “hot tub” soak in 200 degree water."
I’ll give you some more reasons to hate me!;
The Madison River near the Park;http://www.madisonrivercasting.com/firstGR03.JPG
Brown Trout on the heavenly Madison River; http://www.montanatrout.com/images/Photos/SHC%202%20footer.jpg
The Madison River in Yellowstone Park; http://www.wrightexposures.com/Photos_Western/40735Large.jpg
Yellowstone area is a dream come true, especially on the Firehole & Gibbon, since there aint hardly any trees to get snagged on.
Doug
God, (errr, Doug, sorry), you don’t by any chance… see a “hint” of jealousy, beginning to run thru this thread, because you and I, living in beautiful Oregon… can take a simple “3-day weekend” and enjoy places like your pictures, above, show??
Joe V. on a serious note, my friend… I honestly PRAY that someday you’re able to fulfill your wish, it sounds and LOOKS, like a beautiful place, indeed!
Hey Joe, you should make the trip. Its pretty nice over there, so nice I am heading back again this year.
Being land locked in Western Canada where we can have 8 months of winter and 2 months of poor sledding, my bucket list is mostly about places warm and salty.
#1 right now is a tarpon on the fly over 50 lb caught while sight casting in classic flats style.
#2 is a grand slam with a bone over 5 lb, a permit over 10 and tarpon over 40 lb all taken in classic flats style… (I have the grand slam, but the bone and the permit were small and the tarpon was blind cast out of a lagoon.)
#3 is any marlin on the fly.
#4 Finally get to Christmas Island and tangle with a big GT.
Unfortunately just about all those dreams require selling the farm and spending my son’s inheritance, so a more likely scenario will be to keep tossing big orange / yellow feather dusters on the lakes closer to home and catch that elusive over 30 lb pike!
Tight lines!
Guy
Therre are a couple of things I would like to do before I die. One is to attend the idaho fish-in. The other is to see my grandson hit adult hood and keep the same standards he has now and the same morals. When I go I would like someone to say there goes a good friend and human being who would do anything for his fellow man. I would like to be remembered not for the evil wicked things I have done but the good I have done
Guys,
After reading these posts I’ve come to the conclsion that there is genuine wisdom among the people who post on FAOL.
In addition to my earlier post about places I’d like to fish (and I still want to fish them) and spending as much time as humanly possible with my son (and I hope he will always like to fish with me and that he will bring his children fishing with us), I would like to add some things.
- live my life in such a way that when I go, people will recgonize that I’m a man of faith and that there will be nothing in my life that would make anyone question that statement.
- that the great friendship I have with my son will last through his teenage years and into his adulthood and we will remain close. That after I’m gone, he will look over our time together and have no regrets and be able to celebrate the times we fished, talked, played video games, and sometimes just sit around saying nothing. I hope after I’m gone, my son never says “I didn’t spend a lot of time with my dad” or “my dad and I were not very close”. That would be a tragic thing. I hope my son will be able to honestly say “my dad was a good guy and we had a lot of good times together. He came to my soccer games, he took me fishing, and he was always there when I needed him”. This would make my life on this Earth a success.
- in the end, the list of people I’ve helped will be orders of magnitude longer than the list of people I’ve hurt.
- that I will have the good health and wisdom to pursue my dreams.
- that I have the wisdom to know when to call it quits on my career and focus my remaining years on serving the Lord, helping my fellow humans, and spending time on the water fishing (and sometimes catching).
I’m writing this sitting in a high rise office building looking out of the office window at a blue sky and what I’ve been told is a warm day. I have to work for at least a few more years to be sure I can put my boy through college. He’ll be 13 in April so I have the teenage thing in front of me (and it scares me to death) and college expenses (not as frightening but still something to consider) and what to do with the rest of my life (I’m 47 and have been at the same company for over 27 years).
So, the bucket list here is something I’ve thought about over the past couple years. It’s good to see other men and women having similar thoughts and similar feelings. It’s encouraging.
Jeff
There are way too many things to put on a list like this but I think Jeff has pretty well nailed it. For me it is best summed up in a song line
Leave a good trail behind you when it is time to go
Will you leave a trail of sorrow on this earth below
Will you leave a trail of love from the seeds you sow
Oh! Leave a good trail behind you when it’s time to go
That is what I truely want and if I can do that then all the rest will fall in place and I will be content with or with out a list.
before i go i want to
see a big trout in a stream,
pick a fly
and a spot to stand,
cast to that trout,
hook,
land,
photograph,
and release that trout.
i have done some of the foregoing for many different fish, but never once all of them for just one fish.
dear Lord, imagine all the fun i’m going to have with that goal–and best of all it could happen any time i go fishing…
To fish one more day in the beauty of nature that God has give us and to make the day of everyone I meet a little better.