That is exactly what I am talking about. I know far too many that will get home from work at 3 or 3:30pm from either Tunney's Pasture or Place du Portage... or whatever job site that lets them go home with the sniffles... and sit there with a case of beer and biatch and moan about needing vacation time to go fishing. These are the same people that will beg for prime fishing holes on fishing sites saying how they have no time to waste searching for honey holes and feel completely reasonable asking those who work just as many hours or more than them... with just as many commitments or more than them.. for the fruits of their labors... then get all indignant when they get flamed.Walleye'm Fishing wrote:I work 8 hour shifts which begin at 6am but at the height of the monster walleye season in autumn, I often put my body through hell just to have a shot at landing a trophy. I also drive a few hundred kilometres just to fish at night for big eyes and by the time I get back home it's usually close to 2am. By the time I'm asleep it's closer to 3am and then I wake up at 5am.
Like you said, it's all about motivation.
This is a man who gets it. This is exactly what people who actually love fishing do. This is what I did. This is what a number of people I fish with have done. When I get a kid giving me the business about me not taking them fishing, I take them... and I do not spare them in any way. They carry what needs to be carried. They get up at 4am... and get home at 10pm. They pee or crap in the woods.Kerrazy wrote:If you have kid's as I do (4/6 year olds). I figured out real quick take one at a time in the boat and the patience level goes way up theirs and yours.
My son the 6 yr old will even run the trolling motor for dad when I can see he is at the end of his patience of dad saying " just one more pass buddy!"
I also have beaucoup snacks and candy which they do not typically get.
I always do my very best to set them up to catch fish too. My son caught a nice 2lb walleye this week. So he was good for a 3 hour run tonight still excited from his last big catch.
Cheers,
Dale
I have three daughters into their teens. I know what ones actually like fishing.
Don't even ask about wives and/or GFs on the water. They all know the score. This is not to say that there isn't a little give and take. I will submit to standing outside a store in a mall with a purse while the GF or wife goes trying on dresses... or whatever they buy in those stores. I will still take a daughter to her barrel racing competitions with all those pretentious horse people who I despise. I will still brush my daughter's hair... or even let them paint my toe nails..
There has to be give and take.
Anyone and every one who knows me, cares about me and or loves me know that fishing is one of my passions. They all make concessions based on the fact that I will fish instead of going to in-law's weddings or brother's civil union.. or even auntie's funeral. Some, who don't know me and a few that do... might think me to be an a-hole for it... but you only live once.
So... how do you maximize your time on the water?
Make it a passion... and you will never ask that question again.
Craig