Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
I"m still working, so I still hit the lakes mostly on the weekends. When I hit Ky and Barkley, I try to leave thurs, fri, sat, sun. Usually, late thurs and fri are the best, then the navies are in full force on sat and sun.

If you play the game right, you can generally know where the hot spots on the lakes are located, and STAY away . For instance, I know they catch a ton of fish this time of year south. Well, I'm not going to Paris, or New Johnsonville. Yea, I will miss out on some fish, but I generally do quite well where I fish.

In a lot of cases, I outfish most of the field in those 200-300 boat tourneys.......

One day, when I'm retired, I hope I'm still interested in fishing. I should be, but to be honest, my interest is slowing down, as I really want to start spending promised time with my wonderful wife of 30 years.

For the first time, we went on a cruise, and I liked it so much I went on 2 more. Heck, we have another scheduled for Next March, and then we plan on a 14 day Alaskan Cruise and I'm saving for a 18 day Medeterrean Cruise. I can't be fishing 130 days a year, buying a new boat, and going to canada 2 times a year if I want to do all that other cool stuff .

Well I could if I wanted to melt some plastic, but I don't.......

Man, Not enough time or money to do it all , but I will try.
. People are different, but my guess is you will never stop fishing, unless your health makes you stop, take your wife fishing with you, if she don’t like bass fishing, take her crappie or bluegill fishing, I have a grandson that is just getting started fishing, so the bass will be safe from me when he is with me and my wife, we will be fishing for panfish. I like the cruises also, but will never take another one in July, hurricane on a boat is a bad experience. My wife and I have a good road trip out west planned for this summer, I like the fact that you are thinking of doing things with your wife, a lot of guys take their wife for granite, the Bible says a good virtual woman is a crown on a mans head, so take her fishing, or let the boat sit in the garage and take her shopping or out to dinner, movie, a walk in the park, lots of things to do, just do it together, either one of you could be taken from the other, called on to the other side of life at any time, so above everything else, take your family to church, so you all can live forever together, on the other side of that great gulf, that separates those that pleases Jesus and those that don’t.