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

[NoShoes]

All my big bass are generally first ten minutes on the water. Strange. 

[WRB]

Waking up is the best part the day, beats the alternative.

Anyone complaining about getting up at O dark 30 to go fishing under the age of 60 is a whuse!

Tom

 

[.ghoti.]

The early bird gets the worm, right?   At my age, that just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. 

[Nelson Wormefeller]

I love it because it means I'm not home with the lunatics that are my family.

[Darth-Baiter]

4 hours ago, Nelson Wormefeller said:

I love it because it means I'm not home with the lunatics that are my family.

You didn’t just go fishing with me did you?   You sound just like my friend.  Haha. 

[lo n slo]

in bed by 10, up by 5, every day, fishing or not. i like to be on the water early from mid spring thru early fall, but wait til the afternoon when it starts getting chilly. 

[Darth-Baiter]

6 hours ago, lo n slo said:

in bed by 10, up by 5, every day, fishing or not. i like to be on the water early from mid spring thru early fall, but wait til the afternoon when it starts getting chilly. 

While my fishing is nearby; it isn’t that nearby.  I’m on the road at 4am in the summer.   I wake up at five every days as well. 

[slonezp]

On 11/12/2020 at 9:31 AM, NoShoes said:

All my big bass are generally first ten minutes on the water. Strange. 

My PB was caught around 8am but I have caught the bulk of my big fish mid day.

[12poundbass]

On 11/11/2020 at 2:04 PM, NHBull said:

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

You triggered a memory. When I was about 14 my brother and I got caught pushing his Mazda 323 down the driveway on our way to drop in hockey at 4 am. It was an hour drive to the rink and we were going to do it before school. As he was popping the clutch we got caught. Those were the good old days! 

[NoShoes]

Worst part of fishing is struggling for a bite and watch a moron near you wrapped on around a tree in a kayak getting tugged by a 7 lber. 

 

True story. 8 this morning lol. 

[Jonas Staggs]

I been working nights lately so being up early is easy for me as I'm still up at 6am. The hard part is staying up. Drank a ton of coffee after work just to go fishing. Have gotten used to it now, between work and fishing, I pulled a 25 hour day last week! Staying up like this is the only way I can fish for now.

 

 

[txchaser]

2019 regularly paid off for getting up at I don't understand o'clock. 2020 kept delivering mediocre results so I stopped doing it - too many days with no fish until 10am. I usually go until last light no matter what time I get there, so it made the long summer days a little less brutal. Every now and then I 'know' it'll be worth it and get up early anyway. Works about half the time.

 

Sure is pretty early morning, but I don't usually fall asleep until 1:30 or 2am, so 5:30 is rough. 

[Hammer 4]

Welp, somehow I devolved a sleep disorder. I usually go to bed around 2am, but I very rarely get to sleep before 4am. If I need to be on the water early, I just stay up all night, then pay for it for the next couple of days.

 

6 or 7 years ago, I had no problem getting up way before the sun came up, now, not so much. 

[schplurg]

Am I the only one that agrees with the OP? I hate waking up at any time of day