Quit fishing?

[Col Forbin]

Quit fishing???? I haven't fished once since the twins were born in April. I get asked all the time "did you quit fishing?" I tell them no, just been too busy training future fisherman to get out there myself. I am dying to go, but have been so busy taking care of babies, I haven't thought about it too much. I doubt I will get out near as much as I like for the next five years or so - but once the little ones are old enough to enjoy it - I will be loading them up at sunrise every day I can.

[AndyG]

I gave it up about 2:30 this morning.

[Chubminnow]

Last year I had the opportunity to meet a request and take a fellow fishing one last time. He was in the latter stages of a terminal illness and hadn't been fishing in 40 years, but apparently never lost the love of it. Perhaps it was divine intervention, but he caught all of the fish and I got skunked (happily). He died 3 weeks later. His widow cherished the photo of him holding a bass he caught that day. In my book, this fellow had his priorities straight.

This is probably one of the coolest things I have read on here in a long time...that right there is one fishin' memory that won't never be forgotten.

As for quitting fishin'...not sure about that, I quite one time when I was in my early 30's, had a terrible marriage that was going south, got divorced, had some things to think about, got remarried and then after a couple of years of being married again fishin' came back to me...now here I am at 47, still fishin' when I can, except for the summer time, I usually say to heck with it in the summer time. Things happen in life though, life happens and things change...who's to say which of us here will fish after we've retired or not? Time will tell.

[Hershey102]

"Things happen in life though, life happens and things change...who's to say which of us here will fish after we've retired or not? Time will tell."

Retired at 52 just so I could spend more time fishing. I'll fish til I die, then knock on the pearly gates to see if Peter wants to wet a line.