Has anyone else noticed?

[Mobasser]

As a kid, it seemed like the summer lasted a long time. Has anyone else noticed, that the older you get, the summer seems to fly by, leaving you with less time for fishing? You turn,  around, and it's over, and fall is here. I guess that's the way it goes for older fisherman. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed this...

[MN Fisher]

Oh you had to go and remind me, didn't you.

 

Bad Sean!

[DitchPanda]

For me this is true. But then again as a kid I had all the time in the world to do fun stuff...baseball and fishing. I didn't have a house to take care of or a job to go to 40-50hrs a week.

[papajoe222]

Time flies by for everyone.  I'm retired and summers don't last as long as they did when I was younger and working. Heck, years don't last as long!  The only solution I've found to slow things down is to not sleep. If you're awake 24hrs, the day seems longer than if you're only awake 16hrs. 

The problem,for me, is I'm not 19 anymore and I don't have to worry about the VC trying to kill me. 

[schplurg]

I swear I've aged only three years but they tell me it's been five. I've heard the people who make calendars are part of a conspiracy...

[Bluebasser86]

It's something to do with new experiences. The less new experiences you have, the more your days run together and time seems to go faster. So the older you get, the less new things there are for you to experience, the faster your days seem to go by. At least that's how it was explained to me. I just can't believe we're halfway through July already ?

[Bubba 460]

 

By the end of summer I'm usually ready for some cooler weather as those 90+ degree days can beat you down. I don't stop fishing all year and have caught most of my bigger bass in January when the water temps are in the low forties, sometimes even colder. When you make a cast, ice would fly off the reel spool and your guides will ice-up when you reel back in.  Then on the other end, by late winter I'm ready for some warmer weather where you don't have to dress like an Eskimo to go fishing. 

[gunsinger]

I’m fortunate to live in Mississippi where I can pretty much fish year round but, you know what they say, “Time flies when you’re having fun.”

[A-Jay]

After enduring each and every hard water season here

which always includes plenty of snow & cold,

the bright, sunny and yes, even hot weather of the summer is most welcome.

Really like not having to wear that 'base layer' everyday. 

Unfortunately the actually fishing, at least for me, is mostly pretty poor.

With the bigger brown bass being fairly elusive and influx of yahoo's on the water,

I'm not out there very much, at least not during the day.

Despite that, summer is still pretty sweet, does seem to race by in short order

 and I still wish it lasted just a little bit longer.

Either way, I do take solace in knowing that there's some very good fishing

right around the corner, and I for one, am Very Ready for that action.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

[bulldog1935]

in s. Texas, summer starts some years in Feb, normally lasts to Halloween, and we live here for the "winters"

 

The subtropical sun of summer isn't directly bearable.  

We have to find a cypress tunnel, where it's always 15 degrees cooler in the shade.  

 

 

ps- fish live here

[NHBull]

I would gladly trade Summer for a longer Spring and Fall and sometimes it can be like that in NH.  
 

The carelessness and lack of responsibility of being a kid gave me more time on my hands that I probably should have had.  That Summer job my dad made me get definitely changed that ?
 

 

[Catt]

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's something to do with new experiences. The less new experiences you have, the more your days run together

 

Two hurricanes, an ice storm, & historic flooding I find this to be very true.

 

“like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”

[Mike L]

Seems like the older I get the days get shorter and the nights get longer. 

More and more now it seems I need something to look forward too more often. 
Fishing seems to be the only thing now. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

[Mobasser]

2 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Seems like the older I get the days get shorter and the nights get longer. 

More and more now it seems I need something to look forward too more often. 
Fishing seems to be the only thing now. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

Mike, it's about all I look forward to.Its one thing I've never lost interest in, and keep trying to be better at, even after so many years.

[NHBull]

14 minutes ago, Mike L said:

Seems like the older I get the days get shorter and the nights get longer. 



 

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

Cause getting up to pee a few times can add an hr or so.   ?

[Mike L]

5 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Mike, it's about all I look forward to.Its one thing I've never lost interest in, and keep trying to be better at, even after so many years.

That’s why you’re so good at it!

 

I look at it this way…Time and money are the 2 things we try to save, 

But both we can never have too much of, so just enjoy what we have for as long as it lasts. 

 

 

 

Mike

[Mobasser]

59 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

After enduring each and every hard water season here

which always includes plenty of snow & cold,

the bright, sunny and yes, even hot weather of the summer is most welcome.

Really like not having to wear that 'base layer' everyday. 

Unfortunately the actually fishing, at least for me, is mostly pretty poor.

With the bigger brown bass being fairly elusive and influx of yahoo's on the water,

I'm not out there very much, at least not during the day.

Despite that, summer is still pretty sweet, does seem to race by in short order

 and I still wish it lasted just a little bit longer.

Either way, I do take solace in knowing that there's some very good fishing

right around the corner, and I for one, am Very Ready for that action.

Fish Hard

A-Jay

A-Jay, I always look forward to fall also. Cooler days, which you can always dress for, and most years, the fishing picks up also. The only thing I don't like about fall is I know winter is just around the corner, which means an extended layoff from fishing again, at least for a while. And, the fall scenery is part of what makes it nice also.

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5 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It's something to do with new experiences. The less new experiences you have, the more your days run together and time seems to go faster. So the older you get, the less new things there are for you to experience, the faster your days seem to go by. At least that's how it was explained to me. I just can't believe we're halfway through July already ?

That, plus youthful enthusiasm combined with the fact that a given amount of time is a larger portion of your existence when you are young, so a year is 1/10 of all you know when you are 10, and sixth that when you are 60. I remember when I was a kid, a year was an eternity, now I blink and it's 2020, I mean 2021...

[ThrowinPlugs]

Even worse when you're spending 40+ hours a week at a job ya can't stand. The fact that were half way through July already is mind blowing.

[WVU-SCPA]

The birth of a first child has really put the last few months into warp speed.

Less time on the water

Less tinker time

Less sleep

Well worth it and wouldn't trade it in for the world.  If he only knew his onesie read "I'd rather be fishing" this morning.

 

[huZZah]

Summer is shorter anyway. I started school after Labor Day and got out around May 20. Now we start Aug 15-18 and go to almost June depending on calendar. 

[PressuredFishing]

16 hours ago, Mobasser said:

As a kid, it seemed like the summer lasted a long time. Has anyone else noticed, that the older you get, the summer seems to fly by, leaving you with less time for fishing? You turn,  around, and it's over, and fall is here. I guess that's the way it goes for older fisherman. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed this...

Yeah I'm only 18 but notice it even now. My senior year flew by, even doing only distance learning ? and compared to when I was younger time is moving faster but a psychologist actually explained it really well by the name of professor Adrian Bejan. The theory is that the older you get the more cognitively aware you are of time passing as you are more experienced with different times of year and their relationship to time itself. (Unless you have a cognitive disability that does not allow you to understand time as thoroughly like an intellectual disabilty). Simply put, the more you "live" the more predictable the future dates will become making them faster in your mind. Heh I guess that psyche 101 in high-school may help somebody after all ???

 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

For me its the opposite.  Summers flew by as kid and now the weeks seem to crawl by.  I much rather it be cold then hot.  I love fishing all winter, when the water freezes it sucks but if that happens I fish spillways or tidal water. 

[gim]

8 hours ago, NHBull said:

I would gladly trade Summer for a longer Spring and Fall and sometimes it can be like that in NH.  

Me too. Spring and fall are my favorite periods. Really enjoy going from summer to fall and winter to spring. Unfortunately, it seems like these two seasons are becoming shorter and shorter. It’s long, dark, cold winter or blazing hot, dry summer. Neither of which I care for.

[ironbjorn]

As a kid seasons seem longer, houses and rooms seem larger, cars seem faster, etc. Everything is larger than life when you're a kid.