Have you quit fishing before?

[Rockytop]

I quit everything from August of 1999 until the spring of 2001. My dad got killed by a drunk driver the weekend before I was supposed to start playing college football. It took the joy out of it for a while but I the Lord put some people in my life that got me through it.

[Revival]

I didn’t quit.  I just took extended breaks here and there.

[Jaderose]

This last summer, I went fishing once.  ONCE!  The wife and I have started a small business and I also work full time.  I had to turn an old rental house into a commercial kitchen over the summer and it required my full time attention.  That SUCKED and it won't happen again.  I started to get pretty squirrelly not being able to do any frogging.

[BassBlaster]

Never give up. 

[fishingram24]

Never quit but have taken some breaks for a few months at a time and still do during the heat of our deep south summers. Came close once due to tournament burn out and taking not winning as much as I thought I should to seriously. Once I decided that I loved fishing to much to give it up and started to take tournaments less seriously, I was good. Fishing was and is my escape from the pressures of  work and now that I have been retired for 6 years its more fun than ever, just not as good at it as I once was.     

[Chowderhead]

I would like to say I am taking a break rather than quitting, but I last went fishing November 2019 (right before Thanksgiving). Living in the Midwest, this would have normally meant starting back up once ice off the lakes but Covid really affected my mental/emotional state and work responsibilities became consuming. I really thought that things would get back to normal for me in 2021 but it was more of the same. I made a change at work and finally feel much better mentally -- looking forward to starting fresh Spring 2023. Despite not fishing for so long, I still really enjoy coming to the forums here and reading/seeing the successes you are all having. 

[Bird]

Oh no, once I got married that gave us someone to meet us at the pickup point.

And she was there spot on everytime.

 

We didn't have cell phones back then but she knew what time it was ?

[Nitro 882]

Seems like a lot of people responding here share my experience that tournament fishing is not for everyone. I'm 76 and have fished all my life. A few years back a friend got me to join his club and I fished their tourneys for 3 or 4 years. Early on I realized that this was extremely different than the kind of fishing I had always enjoyed. Someone once said, "most fisherman fish their entire lives and don't realize it wasn't the fish they were after".

I had convinced myself that I was good and savvy bass fisherman and I boated enough fish to support that theory. But, when it's 10 o'clock in the morning and you don't have a fish in the livewell, I would get a knot in my stomach and I would  start trying to figure out how to skip the weigh-in and avoid the embarrassment. So I quit the club. (By the way, I did win one tourney and also had "big fish" that day so I didn't totally suck.) Dad always said that a man should figure out what he doesn't do well and ----don't do it. 

I'm back to leisure fishing but not very productively. I fish like the "old man" that I am. I get to the lake about 9 am/10 am and leave about 3 pm/4 pm even though I realize this is not necessarily the most productive time slot during the day. I enjoy this time on the water as I have realized that "it's not the fish I am after."

[ATA]

I married by 2006 and by summer of 2008 after visiting my inlaws when back to philippines my wife at the time said she left everything with her father and somehow got rid of them and said I can fish when we going there, That was start of no fishing period till 2015 when finally I was free again and I always remember it was June 3 the best day of my life (I remember every rod and reel and tackle I order by that day).

Since then I am living happily with fishing and I am thanking lord for every minute of it.

Sorry if someone might find it offensive, But she was special, not like others. Ive seen a lots of girls that fish with their man and I adore them and wish them the best, but mine just dumped my reel and rod and tackles.