Days Off Work And Murphys Law

[s13john]

Is it inevitable that the day you have off work is going to be the nastiest day of the week. Tomorrow 55 and rainy, last 3 days 70+ and sunny.

any one else have that problem?

off fishing i go cold and rainy.

[bwillis]

I feel the same way, I worked 1st shift yesterday instead of 2nd, so I had the afternoon off. It was beautiful outside, but the wind was blowing at like 15 or 20mph. I fished for like 20 minutes before I said to hell with it and went home.

[GTrombly]

That's usually how it works. I don't really get to choice the best days to fish.

[Bluebasser86]

Check out my post about fishing in the wind on the fising trip forum. It was in the low 90's and sunny on Sunday. That night it stormed and cold front moved through. Next morning it was in the low 40's with wind gusting to 50mph. We still went and would have had a 20+lb limit and a couple bonus wipers. The wind sucked but the fishing was still really good! It beats sitting at work anyways!

[Fish Chris]

Yea !!! And it freaking kills me !

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But I do have a fun story relating to this subject

About 8 years ago, it was early March, we had had a stretch of unusually warm, clear weather, and the fish were totally feeling it ! I had heard reports from one of my trophy bass lakes, from the couple days before my days off (like the 9th and 10th super nice days) of big fish, up and roaming all over a huge flat, scouting for nesting spots... and on a hot pre-spawn bite !

I had collected a fat box of about 100 live dads, and just couldn't wait to be there to sleigh them on Monday !

Well sure as $#%&, Sunday night, the rain / cold front rolls in :( Come on ! You have got to be kidding me, right ?

Now you know I'm not going to let the rain stop me.... but still, I thought I'd be in a tank top, and instead, I was dragging out the Gor-Tex

So on the way to the lake, I started thinking > Ya' know, there is this one, rocky point / ledge, that drops off of the end of that huge flat, into 100ft+ water ! And so I was thinking > "If I was really lucky, maybe they will stack up on the edge of that flat, on that rocky point, to wait for nice weather". Good luck, right ?

So, I get to the lake, and after determining that they had, in fact, vacated that huge flat, I work my way out to that point....

First cast.... Whack ! I stick a 13.2 lb'er ! Beautiful fish, and just built like a cinder block ! Next cast, whack ! an 11.1 lb'er ! after that, just a bunch of "little 7 and 8 lb'ers But in any case, I went from crying about my rotten luck with the weather, to raving about one of the best trips of my life. But that's fishing, right ? You just never know until you go

Peace,

Fish

[dulouz]

When I don't have time to fish, it is warm sunny and no wind. When I do it is cold, cloudy, and windy.

[Bankbeater]

It's usually nice all week until Friday when a cold front moves in.