How often do you fish?

[AndrewJ]

Im lucky if I get in 2 - 3 days a month.  Between work and my other hobbies (mainly softball tournaments), I just dont seem to get out very often.  I mainly fish shasta which is about 30 miles from the house and my truck drinks fuel like I do beer in the summers, so that limits it as well.  

[N Florida Mike]

I don't go very often all day anymore but I do several hour trips 3-4 times a month. I also often cast for 15-30 minutes off the bank behind the house or in ponds between work stops.

[Crestliner2008]

Let's see here... Being retired and getting up there in years, I still manage to get out at least twice a week in either my boat or my buddy's boat. Between those "on the water" trips, I'll run the bank just about every day it isn't raining.

[MaineBassMan]

Once the ice goes out, which is looking early this year, I go a minimum of 10 times a month from March or April (depending on Ice out) until the end of October.

[LOTR88]

Since I live on a lake in south FL I fish almost every day, some days only an hour before or after work and just about every weekend. I usually just fish the lake I live on.

[fishwizzard]

I try to go about 3-4 times a week.  A lot of those are very short trips to one of the little ponds by my house after work.   My job is very hot/cold, so sometimes I don't make it out for weeks and some times I can go every day for a month.  

 

Last season I spent a ton of time, maybe close to half of all my time on the water, at a single small pond by my house.  It really payed off as my PB from that pond jumped up a full pound and my average size went up almost as much. 

[MIbassyaker]

In the last few years, what I've been doing is from May through September I make around 30-40 short kayak trips, usually 3-4 hours on the water in the morning to any of 20 or so regular haunts, small public waters I like to fish within an hour of home. Then, from October through April, I rarely get to fish at all...maybe 5 hours total, an hour here and there from shore, or maybe one last short kayak trip before hanging things up for the season.

[Columbia Craw]

Last week I told the wife it was time to start the season.  Daffodills ready to bloom and a couple cherry trees blossomed.  It snowed to inches yesterday and we expect another inch tonight. I can actually walk the dog with a Spro frog on the snow.

[burrows]

8 days a week

[Yakalong]

Between march and November about 3-4 days a week 

[gim]

Unfortunately, I'm not retired so I can't realistically go 3-4 days/week during the season.  If I'm able to, I try to go once on the weekend and once during the week in the evening for a few hours.  A lot of it is dictated by the weather.  Sunny, calm, warm weather in the summer brings out a TON of recreational traffic on our lakes here, especially on weekends and major holidays, so I often avoid those.  One thing I've tried to do more is target days with inclement weather.  I won't fish in a thunderstorm but you'd be surprised how many people stay off the lake when there's a little rain in the forecast.

 

We have this thing called winter in the north for 5-6 months and I don't ice drink so that's what I like to refer to as the off season.