Do Any Of You Put You're Other Hobbies On The Backburner For Fishing ?

[rhinojoe2014]

I have a jeep wrangler I have completely rebuilt.. Well I am in the process of doing. I rebuilt the engine and suspension. Right now the front dana 60 sits disassembled and awaiting time to put back together. It is hard when all you want to do is fish.

 

I have thought about selling it several times, but just cant seem to get it put back together.

[(='_'=)]

when i began fishing, i almost quit rock climbing... i trained during the week, but on weekends i would head to the lake... now im trying to combine both of them...

 

oh, and im selling my jeep, i just dont wheel anymore, fishing is a lot more fun...

[IowaHusker28]

To me it is kind of the opposite, but I think that this summer will change a little bit. I used to race Dirt Bikes and go riding all the time but last summer a wrist/ankle injury kept me out about a month and I fished like 4 times a week and started to really love it! We are getting our first boat next weekend so I think it may be more even this year!

[xbacksideslider]

Motorcycles, turbo cars, golf - all suffering on account of fishing.

[Ratherbfishing]

One persons avocation is another's vocation; one persons hobbie is another's career.

There can be real harm to your vocation wasting time with avocations or hobbies, fishing included.

You're first responsibility is establishing a career, very few can make their avocation a vocation and bass fishing, and other hobbies, has caused a lot of heartbreak, lost careers!

Boys don't out grow their toys, just the time needed to play with them.

Tom

 

 

"Tom" sure rhymes with "mom".  Cooincidence?

[CountBassula]

I recently sold my remaining 8 boxes of Cuban Cigars to fund my new casting rod rigs (got 3 now) and haven't been shooting guns in almost a year, so yea :-)

[WRB]

"Tom" sure rhymes with "mom".  Cooincidence?

This old Tom, like mom, is older and wiser.

[Nick49]

Still an avid hunter, but gave up spring turkey hunting in order to spend more time fishing.

[skeetercraig]

yup sold snowmobile cause i ran all over to find snow and it cost me a ton of money that i can use towards fishing now , my gym days drop during fishing from 4-5 to about 2 days a week , also turkey hunting is down to a couple days a season cause when im out there hunting alls im thinking about is fishing ,i also have a 1972 corvette i take to car shows and cruise nites and that also is down to a couple times a season , i can scale back for fishing but somethings i cant give up totally

[gripnrip]

I rotate around but I try and do everything that I love. I work out every day just about, ride my bike 3-5 days a week and fish usually 2 evenings a week and one day on the weekend. I also manage to spend a lot of time with my fiancée and two year old son. I am just glad I don't need more than about 5-6 hours sleep a night.

My sweet spot used to be 4-6 hours.  Then I got older and remarried and another little one.  That will probably change! lol

 

I have been pretty much dedicated to working other than family stuff.  Fishing was always the thing I gave up. Until last year.  I suffered an injury from playing rec league hockey.  I thought I tore my ACL.  It wound up being a bad sprain.  Talk about scary.  I had no time at work to use on a surgery and there is no such thing as light duty in my profession.  Workers Comp wasn't an option.  I work and the wife stays at home to raise our little one.  I couldn't afford to do that.  So I gave up hockey.  Fishing mad a helluva come back.  I asked the wife if I gave up hockey, could I start tournament fishing?  I received the nod and here I am.  Fishing consumes my thoughts constantly.  I also hunt and juggle going to Norman to watch my beloved Sooners, hopefully pound their foes into the turf at Memorial Stadium.  

[Brian6428]

Yes, I used to build scale models airplanes as well as balsa model planes that flew, but I haven't even sat down at my workbench for those in over a year. Fishing takes priority over those! My only other hobby is baseball and I don't think I will ever stop that.

[Brian Needham]

not really, but I have put my health on the back burner since I have not been to the gym in 2+ years (used to be everyday)....does that count?

[BassThumb]

Pretty much all my other hobbies take a backseat in the summer. I have plenty of time during the long winters to focus on the other ones.

[FD.]

We still shoot but the golf clubs have been idle for 10 years and the mountain bike has more dust on it than dirt.

[rhinojoe2014]

And... 5 days after my original post.... My jeep is SOLD.

 

Time to buy some fishing stuff, and say goodbye to one of the last things that kept me from fishing..

[NEjitterbugger]

I quite AAU basketball so I had more time fishing... Still playing lacosse though

[B@ssCrzy]

Only hobby is fishing.  It's all I can afford. 

[piscicidal]

I used to golf twice a week (average) and fish four times a year.  Now I fish twice a week (average) and golf four times a year. 

 

My golf game is the best it has ever been, so I guess I found the right mix.

[jhoffman]

Still an avid hunter, but gave up spring turkey hunting in order to spend more time fishing.

 

Youve lost it

[Hyrule Bass]

well, i am skipping my tribes Pow-Wow this weekend in NC to go fishing at Smith Mountain Lake, VA

 

it was an easy choice really. go to pow-wow in nc and spend a bunch of money on gas and food and stuff all weekend, drive 5+ hours, and be tired as hell when i get back monday? OR go to SML and fish, spend little money, ride down with my aunt and uncle, 4.5 hours ride, only spend money on beer and bait, relax all weekend, clear my mind, and be refreshed and relaxed when i get back monday?...

[BuckMaxx]

I put my relationship on the back burner... I am gonna miss her. Who wants to go to the lake??

[SirSnookalot]

Actually bass fishing is on the backburner for a while.  Each year about this time the bite drops off in my area, the humidity intensifies and I hate those d**n gnats.  Being in Florida something is always happening so I still fish every day, I restart my bass fishing usually late November in earnest.

[Grizzn N Bassin]

I put largenouth bass.fishing on.hold until june well most of the time. I live on.the hudson river and.the.stripe bass come up to spawn from the ocean. Its a great time and.we pull.out huge strippers then after the season i go back to large mouth.

[jwhowells]

I compete regularly in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournaments so I don't totally put it on the back burner but my training does suffer over the spring, summer and fall months.

[JEC]

^{since I started bass fishing all my other hobbies have seemed to fade away}