The hardest part about bass fishing is.........

[BassmanDan]

...being at work on a gorgeous day in March.

[brushhoggin]

....being at work on a cloudy, 0 precipitation, with a 3-5 mph chop on the water day

[opie]

...falling asleep the night before.

Opie

[90x]

knowing when to stop

[Paul Roberts]

"Catching bass is easy, the challenge is finding them."

http://www.azbw.com/past_issues/november07/f4_patterningbass.php 8-)

"Some anglers pay more attention and get more mileage out of a year than another guy will get out of a lifetime. Pay attention to your fishing and pretty soon you will find yourself establishing a pattern automatically." -Rick Clunn

[WoolleyBass]

"one more cast"

Yea that is by far the hardest part. Roby

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

The heat in summer

Post frontal bluebird sky crap.It's a mother around here and most of the time I lose all motivation to even fish.

[little_stephen]

having changed my schedule at work to increase my productivity but knowing it cuts two hours out of my evening fishing every night (once it warms up)

on the bright side i can wake up earlier and go sunrise fishing. but i am NOT a morning person

[justtrying]

hey, some of these replys are pretty good ....sadly, for me, the hardest part right now is trying to work a jerkbait w/arthrithis in my shoulder.

some of you "younger" ones will understand later on

ronnie

[fishermantony]

It is so mental, it requires so much thought and preparation to get better and compete at any level.  I refer to it as the ultimate thinking mans sport.

[Hammer 4]

Having the Biggest Bass you ever hooked.............come unbuttoned...... :'(

[fishermantony]

Convincing the wife that the dozen Lucky Craft lures you bought were 3.00 apiece, keeping a straight face, and convincing her that the bank made a mistake when processing your debit card.

Ha Ha Ha, I once told my wife I only spent $50 at Cabela's........then she found the $200 receipt!

[Hammer 4]

Always...keep the reciepts Hidden in your garage, or car...

[VABassin'14]

Making myself slow down.

[SWMIBASSER]

Watching it get so commercialized and realizing no one is realizing the dangers of that.

I'm surprised I don't hear more of this.....And I'm with you 1,000%

ESPN "advanced" bass fishing, but it has also created poorer fishing.......I have to believe in more areas than just mine.

Bass fishing in the last 10 years or so has increased in popularity by magnitudes I would have never thought possible.

With all of that said, it's important to get in on the hot new techniques, so that you are utilizing something new, for as long as you can before everyone and his brother catches onto it too.

And finally with all that said, that's one of the hardest parts for me. Adapting to new, weird, unusual or unorthadox ways of catching bass, WAY to late.

By the time I bought a dedicated shakey head rod/reel combo, shakey heads were pretty played out around here....Still catch fish, but not like they did one or two years before that.

FWIW I think the location I'm in causes alot of this too. Good populations of large and smallmouth bass, but LOTS of lakes....Usually an access site to a new lake is no more than 10 minutes away, no matter where you live.

On top of that, lakes are small. The lake I'm on is one of the biggest around at a hair under 900 acres with most being 400 acres or less.

I gotta drive to the great lakes or north a good 4 hours before I hit anything over a couple thousand acres.

[SlateTundra]

Coming home. ;D

[Bass_Fanatic]

going to work when I know I could be fishing!!

[diver_sniper]

having to wait out the looooooooooong @ss winters in minnesota til opener >

I'm with ya brother!

Other than that I think the hardest thing is trying to still learn something when you spend a full day trying literally everything that you know and a bunch of things that you made up out of desperation and never got a single bite from any of it.

[slonezp]

1.Justifying to myself how much money I spend on this wonderful habit.

2. Walking out of BPS or Cabelas with ONLY what I went there for.(Why did I buy more soft plastics when I already have 3 tackleboxes full of them?)

3. Dealing with cabin fever as there is 10" of ice on all the lakes here.

4. Knowing what to do when everything that always works, isn't working.(changing baits, locations, presentations)

[Dwight Hottle]

The hardest part about bass fishing is keeping up your enthusiasm for day two after getting your butt kicked the day before. Then figuring out a new strategy that works.

[aarogb]

Definitely for me it has got to be staying focused.  Another thing I have trouble with is not staying in one spot long...  If I could stay in one spot for more than thirty minutes I'm sure I would catch more bass.

[NasTMcfingas]

Having to go home when the "bite" is outstanding.

[K.Fox]

Concentrating for every minute in a tournament....

[Zel]

Realizing, come each spring, that you're just not as good as you thought you were the preceding winter when you spent untold hours sorting, cleaning, organizing, and consolidating your lures and tackle and of course ordering the new stuff you just gotta have in order to be successful.

[bmadd]

filling up the boat