Looking back at the 2022 season, what is one thing you want to brag about?

[Aaron_H]

2 hours ago, Derek1 said:

Not much to brag about here. Fishing was terrible almost all season. No rain, hot and really low water. Made fishing from the bank pretty tough. About the only thing I feel like bragging  about is. The week before Christmas I was able to score a 7’2” mh expride from TW on sale no less. This rod has eluded me every time I was looking for a rod the last two years. I’ll be more then happy to not catch anything on it. If next season is the same. 

 

That's a sweet rod for sure. Nice snag, hopefully you put it to good use this year!

[thediscochef]

I grew a lot as a fisher in 22. Started using more lures successfully, caught 10 over 5lbs including a PB 1lb over last year's. Had long periods of skunk which is helping me right now. It's not my fault lol

[MinDoFmejiA]

My two biggest bass of 2022! Both caught about 3 weeks apart, and both broke my old pb. First one caught was at a river where I had never caught a bass, only panfish and trout. Second was at a lake where I never had any Luck after multiple trips out with nothing to show for it.

 

 

 

 

 

[EarthboundBob]

2022 was my first full year as an angler, and so a year of many firsts for me:

• Caught my first stocked brook trout, wild native brook trout, creek chub, white sucker, pumpkinseed, warmouth, rock bass, and yellow bullhead
• Put my brother on his first trout
• Lost what would have been my first wild brown
• Took my four-year-old son fishing for the first of many times
• Watched my son cast, hook, and land his first fish, which wound up being the best bass of the day
• Caught a fish in a state further south than Connecticut (North Carolina)
• Caught, cleaned, cooked, and ate a catch for the first time
• Bought a kayak (the first vessel I've ever owned) and got a lot of use out of it, fishing various bodies of water for the first time

I got a lot of joy from my first year of fishing. Sometimes I can't believe I lived so much of my life without it. I intend to make up for lost time!

[CM-fisher]

I didn't have a crazy year, but still got a lot of quality fish. 

1st picture is of my 2nd biggest largemouth ever, just an inch shorter than my PB (which was caught at the same lake)

2nd picture is of my largest bass ever got on a jig, measuring in at 19" and it sure put up a fight in the dense weeds I was fishing in 

3rd picture is of my 1st ever smallmouth. I caught my PB smallie (18") but didn't have a camera on me because I was camping

Last picture is the biggest rainbow trout (a new species for me) I got while in the Black Hills of S.D. this past June

[Steveo-1969]

Caught my PB walleye in 2022.

 

28.5 inches

[THE_Vue's]

2021 lost a kayak club tournament due to service could of been 1st place with only 1 more fish to submit but no reception.  Host wouldn't allow me to submit last fish that didn't make dead line so then I lost.  2022 came around same lake same club redemption took 1st.  Took couple KBF format 1st place as well

[ironbjorn]

I don't have anything to brag about, but I have something I'm proud of. I caught a lot of big bass on spinnerbaits in an era in which a lot of people struggle with a spinnerbait. I've been loving this bait for the past 3 seasons now, and each season I'm getting better and better with it. It has become my favorite lure. I've learned all sorts of neat tricks. I feel a spinnerbait is truly an extension of me when I'm using it.

[LrgmouthShad]

3 minutes ago, ironbjorn said:

I don't have anything to brag about, but I have something I'm proud of. I caught a lot of big bass on spinnerbaits in an era in which a lot of people struggle with a spinnerbait. I've been loving this bait for the past 3 seasons now, and each season I'm getting better and better with it. It has become my favorite lure. I've learned all sorts of neat tricks. I feel a spinnerbait is truly an extension of me when I'm using it.

Keep spinning, fellow blade man

[Swest18x]

My first full year back fishing in 2+ decades. I watched a video on the donkey rig, went out and caught 5 doubles in an hour on double flukes. I watched a Tacticalbassin video on lipless crankbaits, went to a hole where the fish weren't biting on the burn, switched to a bottom hop and caught 3 keepers in a row. I talked to a guy about trolling the canal near where I live, tried it myself and me and my daughter caught a smallmouth big enough to qualify for a New York State angler award (man that was cool seeing her name on it). I caught a 26 inch pickerel trolling in to the canoe launch after a totally fruitless day just because I refused to pull my line out of the water til the day was absolutely over. I had lots of bad days but I'm proud because I didnt give up and I'm proud because I learned. I caught my biggest smallmouth of the year on the last trip out fishing in the snow when my buddy told me I was crazy. This is an awesome sport and I'm hooked. Thanks for anybody who ever responded to one of my posts to answer my questions.

[A-Jay]

On 1/1/2023 at 8:46 AM, A-Jay said:

Plenty of notable deals going on in this one ! 

Early in the 2022 season I managed two smallies over 6 lbs

which was a first for me. 

They ended up anchoring a bag that went over 27 lbs.

 

Late summer 2022, I was able to introduce myself to these two mutants.

Biggest of which was a popper fish.

Hard to beat brown tanks on topwater. 

 

Finally, but no less memorable for me, I was able to help a fellow basshead

document his new PB Smallie. 

Really special.

 

Good Times

A-Jay

 

 

 

[gim]

How it finished.  The end of the season is always kind of a buzz kill, but in this case, it really went out an extremely high note.  The final month of the season:

caught my 7th muskie

won a local derby

caught the biggest largie of the season (20 inches)

caught over a dozen largies 17+ inches

[Darth-Baiter]

i had a very vanilla 2022.  what i did realize was that i am okay with not catching a fish..i used to get totally butt-hurt, but now..i just shrug it off.  it happens.

 

my friend flipped his kayak, which caused me to bolster my own safety issues.  

[Ktho]

Not anything too exciting for me. Although I did move to Texas caught my first guadalupe bass, haven't gotten any of size yet but been having fun catching them on flies in the creeks. 

[Bird]

I had my single best day of bass fishing in March of 2022. 

1 citation and a 7.1 and a 7.3 all within an hour......a very memorable day.

[scbassin]

That I'll be 84 in a couple of weeks( my Dad starting me fishing when I was 5). I have a 2008 Ranger Z21 that I can still load & unload & remove & put on with out help. Both My Cardiologist did not want on the lake without someone with me. Last Wednesday I told the one That I have had enough of all this c--- & I was going by self when no body could go. I told him the worst thing that could happen was I would fall out of the boat & be lunch for a gator. He laughed & said your not sitting around & waiting but enjoying life while you still can.  As a side note in 2018 I had a massive heart attack& they didn't think they would get me to the hospital alive.  I was out blood to the right side of my heart for about a hour & 50 min counting the ride in the ambulance ride. My heart pump is now up to 50% so I am done being house bound. So what ever happens I have had a good ride!

[Bird]

3 hours ago, scbassin said:

That I'll be 84 in a couple of weeks( my Dad starting me fishing when I was 5). I have a 2008 Ranger Z21 that I can still load & unload & remove & put on with out help. Both My Cardiologist did not want on the lake without someone with me. Last Wednesday I told the one That I have had enough of all this c--- & I was going by self when no body could go. I told him the worst thing that could happen was I would fall out of the boat & be lunch for a gator. He laughed & said your not sitting around & waiting but enjoying life while you still can.  As a side note in 2018 I had a massive heart attack& they didn't think they would get me to the hospital alive.  I was out blood to the right side of my heart for about a hour & 50 min counting the ride in the ambulance ride. My heart pump is now up to 50% so I am done being house bound. So what ever happens I have had a good ride!

That will be my attitude as well ?