Sticking with it #embracethegrind...

[J Francho]

Yeah, I'm not doing that to my liver.  I already inflicted enough damage in my younger years.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Big Hands said:

 

Sometimes, in the winter, I don't even bring food or water, and even when I do it is mostly ignored. As the weather gets warm (regularly over 100° in the summer), I eventually have to bring water or I won't be able to stay on the lake without it. Food is still often ignored in the summer. Looking back, it does seem silly that I couldn't find a few minutes to choke down a sammich, but that's what happens when I'm 'busy' fishing

Forget the sandwich, for the love of god drink Some water man. I remember a time working for the National park service in the back Country our water purifier quit pumping. I lapped up that dangerous creek water like a dog and I guarantee I wouldn’t have made it out without water 

[Jigfishn10]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

I lapped up that dangerous creek water like a dog and I guarantee I wouldn’t have made it out without water 

That explains things...?

[TnRiver46]

8 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

That explains things...?

Ha! I gotta have about 1.5 gallons a day, even if it comes from a puddle 

[Big Hands]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Forget the sandwich, for the love of god drink Some water man. I remember a time working for the National park service in the back Country our water purifier quit pumping. I lapped up that dangerous creek water like a dog and I guarantee I wouldn’t have made it out without water 

As a cyclist, I fully understand the need for water. I had one MTB ride where I brought 225 ounces of water and still ran out. Fishing when it's cool outside doesn't seem to affect me that much.

[TnRiver46]

Just now, Big Hands said:

As a cyclist, I fully understand the need for water. I had one MTB ride where I brought 225 ounces of water and still ran out. Fishing when it's cool outside doesn't seem to affect me that much.

My buddy Will is kind of the same way. He somehow survives on one or 2 cups of black coffee per day, no water. He may end up on a kidney transplant list one day

[Bluebasser86]

I get aura migraines and ones of my triggers is dehydration. If I get one from not drinking enough water, those are some of the worst ones. My vision goes so I'm functionally blind in my left eye, my left arm goes numb and if it's really bad so will my feet. I have difficulty thinking and forming thoughts and sentences. Then the nausea sets in and I start vomiting uncontrollably until there's nothing left and I just retch until it feels like my eyes are going to pop out of my head. 0/10, don't recommend. I always have something to drink with me anywhere I go.

[ironbjorn]

Important to note that dehydration can and will happen in the winter. Being cold outside doesn't matter. It just happens sooner, more easily, and more frequently in the summer in hot conditions in which you're losing water rapidly.

 

Don't go without water, ever. It's foolish.

[scaleface]

On 2/4/2021 at 10:25 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

My vision goes so I'm functionally blind in my left eye

Twice in my life I lost all frontal vision but had peripheral  vision and another time everything just went crazy wavy for about an hour .No other symptoms . The Dr told me they were a form of migraines .

[DitchPanda]

On 2/5/2021 at 1:52 AM, ironbjorn said:

Important to note that dehydration can and will happen in the winter. Being cold outside doesn't matter. It just happens sooner, more easily, and more frequently in the summer in hot conditions in which you're losing water rapidly.

 

Don't go without water, ever. It's foolish.

Agreed. I remember one time I was ice fishing on a big lake back in my 20s. Anyway we got stuck in snow coming off and I had to shovel and push for hours to get us off the lake. I ended up getting a horrible headache and even worse stomach/side cramps and pain...almost thought my appendix was gonna burst. The buddy I was with was a nurse and he asked  how much water I drank that day...when I said none he said I had bad dehydration. He stopped and got me a couple gatorades and a big water. By the time we got home several hours later I felt almost normal.

[Miabucman]

On 2/6/2021 at 10:26 AM, DitchPanda said:

Agreed. I remember one time I was ice fishing on a big lake back in my 20s. Anyway we got stuck in snow coming off and I had to shovel and push for hours to get us off the lake. I ended up getting a horrible headache and even worse stomach/side cramps and pain...almost thought my appendix was gonna burst. The buddy I was with was a nurse and he asked  how much water I drank that day...when I said none he said I had bad dehydration. He stopped and got me a couple gatorades and a big water. By the time we got home several hours later I felt almost normal.

Dehydration was one of the things that we had to really watch out for while training in Alaska.  Consuming water is almost an afterthought but it is imperative for survival. We had to constantly monitor each other to ensure that we loaded up on water and increase calorie intake. We had a couple of dehydration cases and one guy said that he didn't want to pee in the cold! 

[Trox]

If fishing wasn't a grind sometimes, I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much...

[Sphynx]

My willingness to grind depends heavily on a number of factors, if I took a week off work and head out of town on a proper fishing trip (probably featuring a tent and a campfire at some point) I would fish through a hurricane, if I stop by the pond a mile from my summer contract after work, I will not grind very hard, I fish that pond probably 100+ times a year, I have never caught any bass larger than a pound out of that area, and it just isn't worth putting up with a lot of discomfort for a few buck bass. Outside of bass, you stick me in a nice run with a fly rod and some willing trout? You may as well stick a fork in me, because I'm done, I'd fish like that all day, every day and I wouldn't complain a bit...so it just depends on the perceived cost versus the perceived reward.

 

You guys on about dehydration, don't fool with it, it's not worth it, I have had severe dehydration and heat exhaustion many times throughout my time in the Army and its bad news, it'll kill you if it goes too far, and most of the guys who I ever saw get really jacked up by dehydration bit it in the cold months, we had a private flat line on us once due to heat stroke and dehydration because he thought he was tough (he lived, thanks to a very skilled medic, he'd have ended up tagged and bagged otherwise), not a game I'm terribly interested in playing again.

[huZZah]

Unfortunately it’s becoming more a sign of the times. The short attention span makes kids, eventually people, unwillingly to learn the patience, not to mention their cell phone games are designed to be winnable with little effort. 
 

I enjoy the walking around and casting and such as much as fishing. It’s fun to accomplish something when you land a fish that you REALLY had to work for it.