2020
2020 WAS
2020 WAS A TOUGH YEAR FOR MANY... AS COVID-19 FORCED MAJOR CHANGES
IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
PEOPLE SPENT A LOT OF
TIMES COOPED UP IN
THEIR HOMES UNABLE TO
GO TO SOCIAL OR
SPORTING EVENTS.
SO... A RECORD NUMBERS
OF IDAHOANS TOOK TO
THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
AND THAT
MEANT....FISHING.
ONE OF IDAHO'S NUMBER
ONE FORMS OF
RECREATION HIT NEW
HEIGHTS LAST YEAR...
OUR KATIJA STJEPOVIC
THREW HER LINE IN THE
WATER TO SEE WHAT THE
YEAR OF 2020 LOOKED
LIKE FOR IDAHO ANGLERS.
SOME SAY ITS TAKES A LOT
OF EDUCATION, PRE-
SCOUTING AND
PLANNING.. WHILE
OTHERS SAY IT'S PURE
LUCK IN FINDING THAT
ONE FISH IN A RIVER LIKE
THIS THAT WILL MAKE YOU
A RECORD SETTER.
PKG
NAT POP WE FOUND IT
RIGHT HERE
:32 WE HAD FOUND THAT
THIS
THIS RECORD HADN'T BEEN SET YET, SO WE WERE GOING TO SET A
NEW RECORD :36
DURING
DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020 JON AND HAYLEIGH URBAN SET SOME PRETTY
AMBITIOUS GOALS..
AMBITIOUS GOALS..
7:10
7:10 I
7:10 I CAME TO LOOK AROUND HERE A FEW
DAYS
DAYS BEFORE AND FOUND SOME SPOTS AND CALLED MY DAUGHTER AND SAID
WE ARE GOING TO GET
YOU SOME RECORDS
NAT POP
IT WAS RIGHT HERE AT
EAGLE ISLAND STATE PARK
POND WHERE 23-YEAR-
OLD HAYLIEGH MANAGED
TO SET TWO CATCH AND
RELEASE RECORDS, ONE
FOR A 6.25 GREEN
SUNFISH AND THE OTHER,
A 8 INCH BLUEGILL, GREEN
SUNFISH HYBRID. THE KEY?
TO THINK LIKE A FISH.
1:45 THAT SPECIES IN
PARTICULAR LIKES KIND
OF THE DARK HIDEAWAY
HOLES, IT WAS REALLY
TRICKY TO GET ONE
BECAUSE THE BLUEGILLS
ARE OUT EVERYWHERE
1:55 THE GREEN SUNFISH
IS MORE ELUSIVE, HIDES
BUT IF YOU GET IT IN THE
RIGHT SPOT UNDER A
ROCK OR LOG OR
SOMETHING THEN YOU
ARE MORE LIKELY TO
CATCH A GREEN SUNFISH
2:04
HAYLEIGH'S BEEN FISHING
WITH HER DAD SINCE SHE
WAS FIVE YEARS OLD.
SHE HAS THREE STATE
RECORDS AND HER DAD
JON, HAS TWO. FOR
NOW
NAT POP
10:24 I DON'T KNOW
WHAT IT IS, I AM A
FANATIC
JON HAS SET TWO CATCH
AND RELEASE RECORDS
THIS YEAR, HIS FIRST WAS
IN JULY, HE REELED IN A 17
INCH BLACK CRAPPIE, AND
ON SEPTEMBER, A 15.25 IN
LOHONTAN CUTTHROAT
TROUT.
10:54 ITS SUCH A
PERSONAL REWARD TO
KNOW THAT YOU FOOLED
THEM AND THAT YOU
CAUGHT THEM YOU
KNOW, AND THAT
REWARD IS USUALLY PAID
OF BY RELEASING THE FISH
11:02 BUTTED
12:04 YOU'VE GOT
STREAMS, LAKES, THE CITY
PONDS,
PONDS, ITS EVERYTHING, ANYTHING YOU WANT 12:10
AND IN 2020, IT WAS
PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT
FISHING IN IDAHO WAS
EVERYTHING A LOT OF
PEOPLE WANTED.
3:40 IF THE ANGLERS
WERE OUT O THE WATER
AND THEY THOUGHT IT
WAS BUSIER THAN
PREVIOUS YEARS, THEY
WERE RIGHT
MARTIN KOENIG WITH
IDAHO FISH AND GAME
SAYS 2020 SAW A TEN
YEAR HIGH IN FISHING
LICENSE SALES A 15
PERCENT INCREASE IN
OVERALL LICENSE SALES
COMPARED TO 2019
8:20 IF THERE WAS
NOTHING THAT COULD
SUMMARIZE 2020 ITS JUST
THE INCREDIBLY BIG
RECORDS THAT BEAT
ALREADY BIG RECORDS IT
WAS JUST REALLY
IMPRESSIVE AND PRETTY
UNBELIEVABLE 8:35
KOENIG SAYS OTHER THAN
IT BEING A GOOD YEAR
FOR FISHING. IT'S NO
DOUBT THAT IF YOU HAVE
MORE FISHERMAN ON
THE WATER, MORE FISH
WILL BE CAUGHT AND
THUS.. MORE RECORDS
WILL BE SET
27 NEW CATCH AND
RELEASE RECORDS WERE
SET IN 2020 AND SIX
CERTIFIED WEIGHT
RECORDS WERE SET.
NAT POT
BUT AS JORDAN
RODRIQUEZ FISHING
COLUMNIST AND TEACHER
SAYS, THERE ARE PROS
AND CONS THAT COME
WITH INCREASED
GROWTH.
6:50 THINGS WHERE
ADDITIONAL ANGLER
PRESSURE MIGHT CAUSE
PROBLEMS DOWN THE
ROAD WOULD BE WITH
THINGS LIKE WILD TROUT
AND LARGE BASS
RODRIGUEZ SAYS
EDUCATION IS KEY. AND
NEW ANGLERS MUST
LEARN TO TELL THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WILD FISH AND A
HATCHERY FISH TO KNOW
WHAT TO KEEP AND WHAT
TO RELEASE.
TO RELEASE. 7:15 I WOULD ENCOURAGE
PEOPLE TO RELEASE THE WILD FISH BECAUSE
THOSE ARE THE ONES
THAT ARE SPAWNING AND
PRODUCING THE NEXT
GENERATIONS OF WILD
FISH 7:25
12:32 THE MORE
EDUCATED WE CAN MAKE
OURSELVES AND THE
MORE RESPONSIBLE WE
CAN BE AS ANGLERS, WILL
MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF
HAVING MORE PEOPLE,
MORE VOLUME OF PEOPLE
OUT THERE DOING IT12:48
THE WHETHER OR NOT
THE IDAHO ANGLER
GROWTH CONTINUES ON
AFTER THE PANDEMIC.
HAYLEIGH AND JON
WON'T GIVE UP IN THEIR
JOURNEY TO SET MORE
RECORDS.
13:58 THERE'S STILL A LOT
MORE OPEN AND I'M
ALREADY PRE-PLANNING
AND STRATEGIZING FOR
ALL OF THAT 14:06
5:44 YOU'RE NOT JUST
FISHING, YOU ARE
SPENDING TIME WITH
SOMEONE YOU LOVE,
WITH YOUR FAMILY, JUST
THAT EXPERIENCE IN
ITSELF WORTH IT
LL TG
IF YOUR PLANNING ON
HEADING OUT TO FISH ON
A LAKE OR RIGHT HERE
ON THE BOISE RIVER,
YOULL NEED A FISHING
LICENSE IF YOUR ABOVE 14
. WE HAVE INFORMATION
ON HOW TO GET YOUR
LICENSE AND FIND SOME
OF THE GREATEST FISHING
SPOTS ON OUR WEBSITE.
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