Carp Fishing Goals for 2014

As I reflect back on my carp fishing progress in 2013 I am satisfied. I went from never having fished for carp; to catching a carp here and there for a couple of months; to catching multiple fish during several of my last few sessions.

I learned a lot in the last 6 months of 2013, but as I look forward to 2014 I find myself with a few goals in mind. Here are some of them:

• I would like to help someone else who has never fished for carp get started. Someone helped me, and now I would like to pay it forward.
• I hope to catch 50 or more carp in 2014 (o.k. you caught me, I'd really like to shoot for 100+).
• I hope to catch multiple fish weighing more than 20 pounds, which would give me a new personal best.
• Dare I saw it out loud, but I would also like to catch a fish tipping the scales at more than 30 pounds.
• I would like to fish at least 4 times per month starting in March and ending in November. That's 36 chances at a 30+ pound fish.
• I hope to develop the blog to the point that people enjoy reading what I write, looking at the pictures I post and just hanging out reading about carp fishing.
• I hope to raise awareness and some money for the Lupus Foundation.

I am guessing that those goals might be adjusted a few times before my first day of fishing in 2014, but you know what they say, "Unless a goal is written down it's just a dream."

So there you have it...I've written them down. Now I have a framework for building some monthly, weekly and even daily goals to progress to the point of achieving them.