Tired of it

[CrashVector]

5 minutes ago, nascar2428 said:

I actually went from fishing 3-4 times a week to once a week last year. Not because of a lack of interest, more of not wanting to deal with the influx of new anglers created from covid. I experienced quite a few negative outings during that time period and did not want to go thru that again. However this is a new year and with a new desire to get back to what I really love to do. So I have one new rod and another rod and reel on order for the new year, I'm definately looking forward to prowling the banks once again.

 

Yeah I had the same experience.  Covid hit, then my bank spots were overrun by new fishing hipsters...wearing leather boots and fedoras with fly fishing vests and fanny packs.

[ajschn06]

If I ever have enough time to myself to find out, I'll let you know!

[Choporoz]

More than once, I came home on third straight 10 hour kayak fishing day and told my wife I'd rather do something else tomorrow.  She just laughs and says "Riiiight".   I'd be thoroughly exhausted, but by 5AM next day, I'd be itching to go back out.....and if weather is ok, I'd be on the water soon after

[KSanford33]

Absolutely. My interest in anything waxes and wanes from time to time. That's when I know it's time to change things up a bit. I'm grateful I have three things I'm passionate about, so I can always do more of one when another one starts getting old.

[FishinBuck07]

Hasn't happened yet!  And if it does hopefully the good Lord takes me home at that moment!

[Aaron_H]

I typically fish 110-125 days a year. Definitely less than 5-6 times per week, but I usually have long stretches where I will fish that often. Then (because hurray Florida) I might have to take a week or two off because of lightning storms in the summer, so it lowers my average. Haven't gotten burned out yet. Even the days when I'm hitting the same spots or throwing the same presentations, the bite is always different enough to keep it interesting. The fish are almost never static, so there is always a new puzzle to solve and that keeps me invested.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Mentally... NEVER... Physically, now that's a different story! I took a 2 month vacation when I switched positions at my work and transferred. On the 4th day of being out flipping and punching for the most part, I was exhausted! 

When we're down South where we do some long walking along Miami canals I usually do 2 days before I'm done. 

Now back in my 20s I had a few weeks where we literally fished Mon - Sat with zero issues. 

[Big Rick]

Fishing has a double role in my life.

 

First, it's a stress reliever. I love getting on the lake just before first light and watching the world wake up. Everything is copacetic with my world for that first couple of hours. And I could do that daily, weather permitting, and never tire of it. My late father taught me how to bass fish and we fished together. Cancer shut his body down for 5 years before he passed, so he lived vicariously through my fishing trip pics and recounts. He died way too young at 64. 

 

Second, I have raised my family on fish. It has been a staple in my kitchen for many years. I have a reason to fish.  We love bass filets. I know some poo poo on the idea, but we love filets from bass less than 2 lbs. Tasty. And they're free! There's something to be said about eating what you harvest. It adds a whole other level to the experience. 

 

So, fishing is very important to my life for a couple of reasons and I don't think I would ever tire of going as long as the body holds up. Like @A-Jay I am trying to keep the physical part in line so I don't have to miss out due to physical inhibitions. I am nowhere as devoted as he is, but what I do does help, nonetheless. And with the career I'm in I have plenty of time to fish. I am so thankful for that. 

[Bluebasser86]

I really don't think I ever could. Part of enjoying fishing for lots of different kinds of fish, I don't feel like I ever have enough time to pursue all of them like I'd like to. 

[Sphynx]

Yes, I fish 11 out of every 14 days in the spring/summer/fall as long as I'm on my landfill contract, and you can absolutely burn out, the solution is very straightforward thankfully, take a break, go do something else for a few days or weeks, usually I spend 90-120 days over the road a year while work is slow at the landfill and I don't get to fish very often at all, maybe a handful of times in that entire time, by the time I go back to the job I'm frothing at the mouth to go catch fish again. 

[Bird]

Fishing has been my #1 hobby since retirement and I've yet to burn out. 

 

I have acquired other hobbies to occupy enough time to make me anticipate my next fishing trip.

 

Fishing 3 days per week seems like a good balance. 

[river-rat]

 

I'll turn 70 in March and have been serious about bass fishing since I was 12 and I never get tired of fishing or tinkering with tackle. Since I retired two years ago I try to go out at least 3 days a week.

[Zcoker]

1 hour ago, MacJig said:

The key, especially in retirement, is to always have something to look forward to. Living In perpetual boredom is so  damaging to one's mental well-being. If I'm going fishing in a few days it just excites me and gives me something to look forward to. Everybody needs something to look forward to in life other than the same old mundane tick of the clock. 

 

Good points! We must never limit ourselves based on boredom or even age. As for age, I can run circles around some of these younger bloods at 63....or at least it appears that way lol. I often look back and see myself doing much more and handling much more nowadays than I ever did during my younger years. Unless prohibited by bad health, it's merely a state of mind.....think old, be old, think boredom, be bored or be blah blah blah. Get busy living or get busy dying. plain and simple, folks. 

[ironbjorn]

Tired of it in the sense that I won't fish for long periods of time or quit altogether? Not a chance. But every season it's in bursts for me. I'll fish 5 times a week for a month or two and then I might fish 5 times total the next month. Anything becomes exhausting when it's all you do. I have other hobbies. Fishing is a major part of my life but it isn't my whole life.

[MacJig]

48 minutes ago, Zcoker said:

 

Good points! We must never limit ourselves based on boredom or even age. As for age, I can run circles around some of these younger bloods at 63....or at least it appears that way lol. I often look back and see myself doing much more and handling much more nowadays than I ever did during my younger years. Unless prohibited by bad health, it's merely a state of mind.....think old, be old, think boredom, be bored or be blah blah blah. Get busy living or get busy dying. plain and simple, folks. 

Yup. Exactly right. 

[Bankbeater]

I don't think I will ever get to the point where I will put down the rod and say I think I'll stay home today.

[fishwizzard]

I don’t think there’s any activity on this earth I could do every single day and not eventually get sick of it.
 

For me fishing is pretty high up the list but there’s definitely days where, if I’ve had a lot of hours on the water recently, I will decide not to fish and just do something else to spice things up a little bit. 

[volzfan59]

5 hours ago, MacJig said:

I hear you. I'm also retired. I don't know what I would do without fishing. 

 

4 hours ago, MacJig said:

The key, especially in retirement, is to always have something to look forward to. 

I'm with you on both! I can't imagine a life without fishing, even if only half day trips. I also enjoy reading, music and hoping in my truck just to find out what's at the other end of some road. I have to keep my mind somewhat busy. This will probably sound silly, but my mother in law got me a model car for Christmas. I've really been enjoying painting it. I'm just now starting to actually building it.

[padlin]

Come late fall when the bite slows like it does in the high ponds around here, I'm ready to call it quits. Unfortunately, I'm ready to start again and it's only mid winter.

 

I can see a time not too far in the distance where I won't be going at all or darn close to it. Not because I don't want to, more cause I won't be able to. The body is starting to get worn down.

 

I've had 2 good fishing buddies in my life. One passed away two years ago after a couple years of bad health where he couldn't go out. The other's health has gone down hill to where he can't get out either, been that way for about 10 years. but he sure wants to.

[Catt]

I can still fish 7 days a week easily but what is gone are the 14-16 hr a day marathon trips. 

[PhishLI]

It never gets old, even after I've had a long, tough day and feel like curling up in a ball. If my brother or one of the dudes call for a night sesh I'm instantly energized. I don't drink coffee, but I imagine the boost I get is like chugging a pint of it. Also, around here there's always a good chance I'm gonna get my butt kicked. It keeps me hungry, and I'm always thinking about getting some payback.

[king fisher]

I may get tired of a certain technique, or body of water, but never tired of trying to solve a new fishing  puzzle.

   I guided in Alaska for 30 years.  On a couple of the streams where I fished for silver salmon, the fishing was too consistent and too easy.  After helping clients catch hard fighting fish, that are all about the same size, almost every cast to the same spot, I would be tired of silver salmon.  At the end of the day some of the new guides  would want to go fishing for silvers.  They were excited and hadn't been doing it long enough to become jaded.  I would go with them only if they agreed to fish new water, try different techniques, and fish with lures, and flies with hooks cut making it impossible to land the fish.  Get hit, watch one jump, then move to a different hole.

       Fishing for bass, even in Mexico, is not consistent enough for me to get bored.  Double digit bass on top every cast all day is not going to happen.  Getting tired of fishing can only happen to me if  fishing is too easy for too long.  As long as there is a challenge and something new to learn, then I could fish every day.

[Log Catcher]

I have gotten tired of it to some degree. The last couple of years have really been bad for me. The fishing has been bad and I don't have any new places to fish unless I want to drive long distance and spend the night.

I normally try to fish once a week when I can but I also have to think about the expenses involved. I haven't been since November and I haven't missed it. Maybe by spring I will have a better outlook on it.

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

Ive fished 55 or so years now and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. I don’t remember even a small time period of it either.

I have gotten discouraged some but I get over it quickly. It usually happens if I lose too many big fish too close together. 

I can still fish all day if I have  a seat with a backrest in whatever boat I’m in. If I’m in my jon boat with only a bench seat then  I’m still good for 3-4 hours … especially if they are biting! ?

[islandbass]

8 hours ago, Zcoker said:

It's nice to have two passions. Always need a break, no matter what it is. In my case, when I grow tiresome or even bored of freshwater fishing, I just jump on over to the ocean side. I tag sharks for NOAA land-based here in S. Florida. Been doing it for years, hundreds of sharks, from 6ft blacktips to 14ft great hammerheads. That endeavor can get very exciting, to say the least, enough so to keep the juices flowing for a very long, long time lol  Bass fishing, on the other hand, is so new and such a refreshing relief for me. Both these worlds, combined, spill over into one and keep my life very full. There's absolutely no room for boredom....unless there's a good flick showing on Netflix lol 

I would love to tag sharks. Sharks have fascinated me since I got a book on sharks from the scholastic book club in first grade. Maybe it’s time to move to Florida. 
 

To the topic. Certainly. I don’t think there is anyone here who doesn’t get tired of fishing after fishing for a long time. Kind of like when you eat too much of the same thing. Or like when people drink too much alcohol and plastered enough to puke and they get hung over. They swear they’ll never do it ever again… until next week.
 

I tell myself I’ve had enough fishing for now. It only lasts about 20 minutes. 

8 hours ago, Choporoz said:

More than once, I came home on third straight 10 hour kayak fishing day and told my wife I'd rather do something else tomorrow.  She just laughs and says "Riiiight".   I'd be thoroughly exhausted, but by 5AM next day, I'd be itching to go back out.....and if weather is ok, I'd be on the water soon after

That’s what I mean. It’s temporary, lol.