What is on your shopping list for 2008?

[Down Deep]

The open water season is fast approaching. So what's on your shopping list?

Down Deep

1. New gps unit

2. New fly rod

3. Assorted eye catching, can't live without tackle.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My list is big, but fishing items will have to take a back seat this year

1) An upcoming wedding

2) A new-to-me truck

3) A dog and all the assorted goodies that go along with that

I could buy a darn nice boat with all that moolah!

[prov1900]

1. Swimbaits

2. Oxygen (ator) system for bait

3. Trolling combo

4. Fuel for boat and truck

5. Baby due in October (hopefully well after the greenback run on the Red!!!)

[BigGrassBass]

We're getting married in July and we have a baby due in November. I can forget about fishing stuff.

P.S. We were planning on getting married before the "Im pregnant" conversation took place!

[Northlander]

New Truck and trailer for my sled.

[fischer69]

1. power auger

2. underwater camera

3. handheld g.p.s. w/MN lakemaster chip

[primetime49]

Wiggum is it your wedding??????????????

I need a hummingbird side locator

Buy a Level lake lot

Oldest child has graduation June 8th ,so I have to remember to keep the couple weeks before openfor honey do list

[timjones]

Might be a new boat for me. I have 2002 Alumacraft Tournament Pro 185 with dual consules. The wife wanted a pontoon boat but I convinced her this would be just as nice. Didn't really work, she still wants the pontoon. Now she has backing from the rest of the family. When either of the son's come up with their wife and the grandkids there isn't enough room for all of us to go out fishing together. No one has said anything about it since last fall so I will just let things ride. I'm sure I will start hearing about it again come summer.

[prov1900]

 Originally Posted By: BigGrassBass

We're getting married in July and we have a baby due in November. I can forget about fishing stuff.

P.S. We were planning on getting married before the "Im pregnant" conversation took place!

Just make sure and do your gift registry for wedding and baby shower at Cabelas. Let everyone else take care of that. Don't worry, babies don't get really expensive till they hit the teenage years...from what I have heard. That is why I am getting all the stuff I need now.

[LoonASea]

Im lookin to get 2 dipsy rod/LC reel combos for the big lake ,,,and a lot more gulp baits,,, with the laws about live bait disposal,,,, I would realy like to get more confidence in gulp and not have to worry about keeping bait alive only to kill it on shore

Randoid

[setterguy]

Trolling muskie rods

Truck topper (come on tax returns)

Lakewoods tackle box

Many a muskie bait, I have a problem.

Convert boat cover to snap on

[Esox_Magnum]

620 Ranger, and of course more muskie gear

[Ralph Wiggum]

 Originally Posted By: primetime49

Wiggum is it your wedding??????????????

Yup, marrying into the family with the place on Games

[cjac]

Curado 300DSV! Going to try a lo-profile muskie reel....

The rest depends on how good my tax return is!

Chris

[UMDSportsman]

1) Everything i need to mount and set up the trolling motor i bought last fall.

2) Maybe a GPS w/ card.

[evinrude19]

i am looking to get:

a new walleye combo

tons of plastics for bass

maybe a new bass combo also

[frogtosser]

just bought my new muskie combo

muskie tackle box

muskie lures

bigger trailer for my sled and wheeler

[Pyrex]

Congrats Wiggum!! I was goin to say you better buy everything before the wedding, but if the family has a place on the lake she'll understand, you gotta "provide food for the family" (thats my excuse anyway) I need a new casting rod I broke in canada last fall, and you always need new lures right?

[Fish Head]

* Pedestal seats for bow and stern casting decks.

* Probably a dozen new musky lures.

* A new spinning rod/reel for bass.

* Another GPS chip.

* Probably half of Gander and Cabella's by the time I'm done.

[davesfriend]

Try-ing to tell the wife that down riggers will be necasary to fish Lake Michigan in the spring. She thinks I should be able to get them for $50. But it is O.K. to spend $300 on makeup? She allready caught he trophey(me;).LOL . Any one want to donate some down riggers to save my butt?

Should be a good year!!

[eyepatrol]

New pedal for my Minnkota (ugh!).

More jigs!!!

3 new rods & reels: 2 for 'eyes and 1 for pannies

There, enough spent!

[MuleShack]

Remote control thingy for the Autopilot.

I was told that I cant spend any more on Fishing this year... ...after my recent purchase of a new wheel house

That ougth to keep me thinking about next winter all thru the summer, but now i need rattle wheels and...

[menomax]

I believe that a man's shopping list is never complete and if your like me there is always something new that you have to have or would like to have. So my shopping list would be to share my love of fishing with my 4 kids and my wife then maybe the I can get a bigger boat.

[fishnhuntnboy]

Hmm... lets see

All kinds of lures

St. Croix caster rod

another baitcaster combo

maybe a jon boat (if i make enough money this summer)

i could just go on and on and on...who couldnt

[hanson]

 Originally Posted By: cjac

The rest depends on how good my tax return is!

You haven't spent it already??

I've got big plans for '08 but it might be more like budgeting for '09.

I just want to have a fun year and keep my head above the water (finance-wise).

[Sandmannd]

I think I'm holding off too many purchases this year. Just bought a wheeler, so I don't know I'll be allowed more than some tackel here and there. I was thinking of making my utility trailer bigger and maybeing turning into an ice house at the same time.

[chrisduc]

Once my boat is sold, I will be buying another one. After that:

2 Jig rod combo's

Lowrance Electronics for the new boat

Vantage 101

Optima Batteries

2007 F-150 to pull the boat

"I'm Sorry, forgive me" card for the wife with some flowers:)

[ROOOOSTERFISH]

Shimano Saros Spinning Reel with a 7 to 8 FT rod...

[LMITOUT]

I picked up three new rods a few weeks ago, so I guess it'd be reels on my list next. It was a new boat and all the accessories last year, so I want to spend more time fishing and less time buying in 2008.

[Sifty]

I've been thinking about a couple of new rods for this year.

I'd like to try some planner board fishing for walleye's.

Sifty