Waking up super early is easily the worst part of fishing for me.

[Darth-Baiter]

Gah!  Sleepy. 
 

I’ll be awake when I get to the lake, I’m sure.  But dang. Brutal.   Probably the reason I stopped duck-hunting.

[Bluebasser86]

Been awake since 6PM, it's almost 6AM now, going to head to the lake in a few. Fishing and hunting are the only 2 things I love getting up early for.

[Dens228]

I don't mind so much until this time of year.....it's not as easy to head out on the water when the air temp is in the 30's.

[FishinBuck07]

I have no problem whatsoever getting up early for fishing!  It is this annoying work thing that I hate getting up for!!?

[scaleface]

I'm a morning person . Havent used an alarm clock in years . Its rare the sun gets up before me .

[TnRiver46]

Just get a couple dogs and you will be up 1 hour before the sun everyday 

[Team9nine]

Gave up on morning fishing when I stopped tourney fishing over a decade ago. Now I never hit the lake before lunch. Get all the sleep I need, still catch plenty of fish, and most of the early crowd is usually off the water by 3:00, leaving me plenty of water to fish. The early evening bite is nearly on par with the morning bite, and sunsets are just as impressive as sunrises. 

[Hook2Jaw]

Have a kid.  Sleeping until 7 is now late for me.  I'm almost always awake before my alarm, whether it's set for 4 to make a run to a lake or set for 6 to hit the river.

 

Y'all need the three C's: children, coffee, and commitment.

[A-Jay]

I can sleep when I'm dead.

Or at the very least - all winter ~ !

A-Jay

[BassinCNY]

I like to fish evenings, 6 until dark. If I fish in the morning I'm tired all day so I prefer evenings.

[Mobasser]

After so many years of getting up at 5:30, I always wake up before my alarm goes off. It's my internal alarm clock. Even if I try to sleep in I can't do it. May as well get up and make coffee.

[roadwarrior]

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I'm a morning person . Havent used an alarm clock in years . Its rare the sun gets up before me .

It's my job to wake up the birds.

[ajschn06]

I've got 3 kids- I don't even set an alarm clock.. Early in itself doesn't cause issues for me, but I'm not a fan of the summer months when I have to hurry to get on the water to fish in some decent weather.  I much prefer early or late in the year when I can get out mid-late morning and still catch the good bite...

[Bankc]

20 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

After so many years of getting up at 5:30, I always wake up before my alarm goes off. It's my internal alarm clock. Even if I try to sleep in I can't do it. May as well get up and make coffee.

Same.  I sleep in on the weekends, and still get up before the sun rises.  And while I'm not a morning person, by any stretch of the imagination, I find the prospect of fishing a much stronger motivation to get out of bed than the prospect of punching a time card.  

[NYWayfarer]

I like being on the banks at sunrise. It’s usually just me and the occasional dog walker. 
 

The bite has been hot a half hour before actual sunrise and that first hour of daylight. After that it has been dead.

[scaleface]

28 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

The bite has been hot a half hour before actual sunrise and that first hour of daylight. After that it has been dead.

I went last week and the first thirty minutes of the morning I had five bass . I thought this was going to be a great day . It all went downhill from there .

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

I can sleep when I'm dead.

Or at the very least - all winter ~ !

A-Jay

No kiddin! When it’s dark at 6 I’m usually dozing on the couch by 8:30. In the summer I’m turning on my navigation lights and heading back to the boat ramp at 9:45

[12poundbass]

The only time I could wake up with no issues was to go hunting or fishing. I’ve passed that torch on to my son. Now that I’m older Sleeping in for me means maybe an hour later than I get up on a work day. Even if I have one too many diet Millers I’m wide awake at the same time. I don’t remember the last time I woke up and it was already daylight. 

[Armtx77]

I quit a can a day of tobacco for 20 years on 01/04/19. Since than, I only need about 6 hours of sleep and wake up like a lightning bolt hit me at 4AM.

[throttleplate]

in summer wife and i leave at 10am to noon. Our lakes are  23 miles from home the closest and the rest are 60 miles. We have a easy 100 lakes surrounding us within a 5 to 25 minute drive once we hit our main spot.

 

Its so tempting to pick up and run as we bank fish and wade fish to another lake if the afternoon bite is dead which we do more often than not. 

For a few hours we will run and gun different lakes and end up back at the first lake for the 7pm bite. I will jump in the car wearing my waders and get to new lake and jump into the water and see how it goes.

I am driving all county paved and gravel backroads and using gps with all the lakes programmed in is a lifesaver.

 

We will fish till dark 9.45 pm and then fight the mosquitos while we finish up and get home 11 pm.

[jbsoonerfan]

Getting up for work sucks! Every morning I look out the window into the pasture as the sun rises and I just wish I could be headed to the lake or sitting in a tree stand waiting for a giant buck to walk by. Then I remember, I have to pay the bills somehow.

[TcRoc]

I don’t like sleeping in. If I do I feel like I’ve wasted away the day. Weekdays it’s 4am even though I don’t leave for work til 6.. weekends 7am at the latest and I don’t like that... usually 5 or 6am unless I’m hitting the water than it’s back to 4

[GreenPig]

It's against my religion to not be on the water before sunrise. ? Unless it's Summer time, then it's moon rise.

[.ghoti.]

3 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

It's my job to wake up the birds.

He is not joking. The dude gets up before anything, or anybody. 

[NHBull]

When you grow up playing youth hockey 6:00 AM is mid day