How many days did you fish in 2023

[Susky River Rat]

I know some of you are still fishing. I know others have their boat in storage.  I had the chance to fish 27 times this year. I was without a boat for 2.5 months. Now it’s getting cold enough where I won’t start getting out much till mid March. I may squeak out a day before the end of the year yet. 
 

How many days did you get to fish this year?

 

How many days were those days fishing for something other than bass?

[wrat]

I have no idea I average probably twice a week  so over 100x and always for bass

[LrgmouthShad]

I’m going to ballpark guess that I’ve fished around 70 times. I missed the month of October and mid November-mid December due to work. I was fishing like crazy from about May-September. Very early in the season I went quite a bit too. Trips other than bass…. About 5 lol.

 

2024 should be a busy year for me so I’m thankful for every trip. 
 

I’m fishing in NC again very soon while I’m home for the holidays! It’s been over a month since I’ve fished. Did somebody say Badin Lake? 🤩

 

[Jig Man]

69 so far

2 times for crappie 

1 time for white bass

[FishTax]

I need to start tracking this. I'd guess about 15x this year once the year is over. All for bass except when I'm fishing for bluegill with my boys, but even then I usually get in a few casts while they're playing with dirt or something 😎

[Jar11591]

Nowhere near enough. I was getting out 3-5 times per week from April-July. But August-November I only got about about a half dozen times. Wrist injury, full time school and work slowed my fishing nearly to a halt. Next year I want to get out at least a dozen times every month. Saying it out loud, dozen times per month doesn’t seem like enough. 

[LrgmouthShad]

@Jar11591 it’s never enough. Even weeks where I was able to get out 3x, I had only just started to feel comfortable with what I was doing and in-tune with the fish 

[king fisher]

I bass fished 12 days in 2023 and haven't cast to a bass since June.  This was a year I was all talk, and no action.  I fished for other species often, but that is for work, and not the same.  I may have not bass fished as much as other years, but I didn't slow down on tackle purchases, so I should be ready to bass fish many more days in 2024.

[Susky River Rat]

@LrgmouthShad I understand this. When I was musky fishing 40-50 hours a week I could almost predict the fish.  
 

I also really need to step up my game compared to all of you!

[bp_fowler]

I started fishing this year 1 March and I was pretty regularly going 3-4x per week up until late September.  After that I was on a short hiatus due to minor surgery.  I picked back up again last month and have been getting out about once or twice a week. 

[Bluebasser86]

Way less than years past. 

[Bankc]

It depends on what the definition of "fish" is.  

 

I fish on my lunch break at work most days, assuming the weather isn't too terrible.  So that's probably 200 days a year right there.  However, that's only fishing for like 20-30 minutes from the bank.  So I don't know how much that counts.  Otherwise, I probably average 2-2.5 days a month where I go out fishing for 6-12 hours on a weekend.  Some months, I'll go once every weekend, usually in the summer and fall.  In the winter and spring (due to the high winds we get in spring) I might only go once or less.  I haven't fished at all on a weekend this December yet, and the way the weather's looking I might not get to.  So there's another 20-30 days a year.  

 

So I'd say I fished somewhere between 20 to 230 days this year.  

[Alex from GA]

Lots of days but not lots of hours.  2-4 times a week for 3-5 hours.

[thediscochef]

At least 120, I didn't go more than a week without throwing lines this year if my memory serves 

[LrgmouthShad]

14 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

At least 120, I didn't go more than a week without throwing lines this year if my memory serves 

there is a DD in your future

[Pat Brown]

Less than I would have liked but more than some people!

 

Probably an average of 16 hours a week with some weeks exceptionally more and some weeks exceptionally less.

 

My goal for 2024 is to be more selective about my days that I commit to being on the water by paying attention to weather leading up to my trips.

 

I see a lot of folks doing this and it makes a lot of sense the more I can identify trends and days where I have gnarly success.

[LrgmouthShad]

8 minutes ago, Pat Brown said:

 

My goal for 2024 is to be more selective about my days that I commit to being on the water by paying attention to weather leading up to my trips

I want to do this more as well. Sometimes it’s just not possible and there’s only one day out of the week to go, but sometimes it’s possible to pick by getting ahead on household chores and such

[MIbassyaker]

For bass, 129 total hours over 31 days, anywhere from 30min to 8 hours at a time, but the majority of trips around 4 hours.

 

Also brief excursions for stream trout on 3 days, totaling about 4 hours.

[GreenPig]

In my boat somewhere between 55 to 75 trips for 7 - 10 hours.

20 to 30 trips pond prowling for a couple hours per.

 

[softwateronly]

I don't know, but my industry was mostly on strike this year so I had way more time since May and probably fished more hours this year than at any other time in my life.  I had numerous 5-7 days stretches when I was able to fish everyday.  It probably saved my sanity as I burned through our savings paying bills.  The only drawback, was that I worked loads of hours in April missing my favorite window.  Even though I didn't hate it, I'd rather not have a year like this again for at least 20 years barring some sort of financial windfall.

 

scott

[Jchilton]

I fished at aleast twice a week, so

atleast a 100 times.

[WVU-SCPA]

On the boat-way down from years past.  Fished more tournaments(13) then other outings(7). 

 

Bank beating before work or during lunch break was consistent to years past.  Prespawn I was able to sneak back to back straight weeks before work.  The month of May I probably fished 25 days.

 

I would estimate I fished 130-150 days of the year, unfortunately only 20 were more than a hour.

[WRB]

Not often enough🥺

Tim

[ne_dan]

Around 180 days.  From March to November I was averaging 4 days a week.  Mid summer I was going out almost everyday.

[Team9nine]

Still fishing - just checked the log. I’ve recorded 178 trips so far, maybe a couple blanks on the year which I didn’t log, so call it 180. Of those, 158 trips produced bass, 39 produced crappie. Obviously some days I catch or fish for both.