Quit fishing?

[billm_usa1]

I find it's pretty easy to quit fishing. I've quit 15 times in the last month alone. I hope to Quit at least 25 more times before the year is over.

[mhall]

I will quit on earth when they find me slumped over in my boat on Ky Lake...did not say I was gonna quit fishing even then....just be changing lakes.

Nice way to put it Dave.

[mhall]

You are a good man.

I second the motion.

[HiDefFisherman]

Bourbon,

My job required me to travel around the country and most (99.9&#37 of my co-workers had advanced degrees. As I "pimped" myself... conformed to the expected... at company get togethers, I found that most of them considered fishing to be 'below' them. There was once a joke going around the internet about how the higher the education, the smaller the balls in your hobby, e.g. golf for doctors...etc. Almost everyone of them could not believe I fished tournaments, or fished just for relaxation. Only one out of the 700 or so customers I dealt with closely over the years liked to fish. I would say the guy thought you "looked" or came accross as being above fishing, so take it as a compliment.

Now I have quit fishing twice, and both times were major changes in my lifestyle. However I always have come back to fishing. However, as I have aged, and my health has declined somewhat, I find I do not jump in the truck and head to KY and Barkley lake as often. Heck, I used to go down there on both Sats and Sundays when I was working. Back then the gas was cheaper than a hotel room. Maybe not so now.

I canceled my last trip because of a torn menescus and I simply could not make the drive.

What is sad is I am now retired, gas prices are up, my income is obviously down, and I am too danged conservative to spend irresponsibly, plus I have tried to stay off the lake on weekends, and not many folks around here can fish on weekdays.

Good luck to you... and keep the lines tight...

HDF

[HURRICANEBOB]

At the end of our lives the important things have a way of sorting themselves out. 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.

Even if you ain't from PA, you deserve my respect for your exceptional efforts to bring enjoyment to one whose horizons were limited. Your are a nobleman, and I say that with total candor. Well done my friend!

[offdtop]

To reply to the original question - I could see how someone can get ruined on fishing if he was trying to fish a ledge on KY Lake this weekend!!!! I know it is to be expected but come on.... at one time we thought we were being attacked from 3 different direction at the same time, they would clearly run out of the channel onto the top of our ledges in as little as 5ft of water (or less) and we were right next to a channel marker. These guys need to learn what those little red and green bouys are.

Again, I can understand if a guy has a competitive nature and fishes tournaments and it consumes him and he spends money like water and wakes up and has to realize enough is enough, but the love of fishing never leaves them.....

[Dave Stewart]

To reply to the original question - I could see how someone can get ruined on fishing if he was trying to fish a ledge on KY Lake this weekend!!!! I know it is to be expected but come on.... at one time we thought we were being attacked from 3 different direction at the same time, they would clearly run out of the channel onto the top of our ledges in as little as 5ft of water (or less) and we were right next to a channel marker. These guys need to learn what those little red and green bouys are.

Again, I can understand if a guy has a competitive nature and fishes tournaments and it consumes him and he spends money like water and wakes up and has to realize enough is enough, but the love of fishing never leaves them.....

That is why I never guide anymore on the big holiday weekends...down right dangerous out there in the "zoo"

[BOURBONBALES]

that is why i never guide anymore on the big holiday weekends...down right dangerous out there in the "zoo"

i guess when i originally started this thread i really didn't think about the people who are guides or tournament fisherman and use the sport/hobby as a means of supporting themselves in the daily grind, so i can see where in some instances someone could definately get burnt out and quit fishing, but i definately think the love of it is something that you couldn't lose.

[Dave Stewart]

i guess when i originally started this thread i really didn't think about the people who are guides or tournament fisherman and use the sport/hobby as a means of supporting themselves in the daily grind, so i can see where in some instances someone could definately get burnt out and quit fishing, but i definately think the love of it is something that you couldn't lose.

You have to really love fishing to be a guide..no one would put the amount of hours in that we do for the small monetary return we get unless they loved it and loved to see folks they take out catch fish..it is in our blood and no way will I ever quit fishing. My comment about not going out on holiday weekends has nothing to do with getting burned out on fishing...it has to do with the comfort and safety of my clients as well as my own.

[offdtop]

You have to really love fishing to be a guide..no one would put the amount of hours in that we do for the small monetary return we get unless they loved it and loved to see folks they take out catch fish..it is in our blood and no way will I ever quit fishing. My comment about not going out on holiday weekends has nothing to do with getting burned out on fishing...it has to do with the comfort and safety of my clients as well as my own.

From the moment we feel a tap on our line then all your attention is on a rod, reel, line and lure, and at that very moment you are not thinking about job, bills, health or money. When you feel that rod load up and you set the hook and feel a tug on the end of the line you don't care about government bailouts, gas prices, the pains in your back, the arguments with the wife and/or kids..... at that moment you are thinking "did I check my line for nicks"? will I need a net? Who could not love it?

I have respect for the first guide that I have ever seen that didn't have a rod in his hand to try and show off, and ran the boat within the channel markers everywhere we went and said "If I fish I can't see what your doing wrong and try to help you", yet can go out there day in and day out and enjoy what he is sharing with other people and loves seeing the spark in there eyes when they "get it", it is a breath of fresh air and seriously promotes the basis behind the movie- "pay it foreword". Two totally different avenues or ways to look at it one from the angler perspective and one from the guide, and the moral of the story is YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!!!!

[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.