Well, with all the excitement I'm wondering what's the average # of days fished in a year?? I'd say I put in 100-120 now but about 4 years ago I used to put in about 250-280 a year.
Just curious??
Keith

Lately if I'm lucky, it's twice a week. . Hope to break a hundred by 2002.

Wanna go?

This year I will get in about 80 days and only 10 or so are weekend. It's been a pretty good year, except for the problem with the tendons in my elbow. Wonder why it hurts sometimes?

I put in about 100 days a year now that I'm married with two small kids at home, a change of priorities you know. I used be in the 250+ range when I was single and working evenings, that was about 12 years ago and there was also alot more open rivers to fish. I killed a hell of a lot of fish back then but I would say I get a lot more fish per hour fished now.

I would say I fish about 80-100 days a year. Seems like I'll fish everyday for a week and then I won't fish again for at least a week. Right now the fishing is good for silvers and I've been going about every other day.

~ Dr Pepper

Fishbait is the right or left hand? I'm betting it is from excessive "self abuse" if you know what I mean.

This last couple years and especially this year I would have to say somewhere in the range of 250-300 days.
Not everyday is spent fishing for a full day maybe its just 1 hour if thats how long I have or if I want something to BBQ. and the weekends it is like a full day sun up to sundown.

FISH ON!!!

:p

Im with Catcher1 on this one. 250-300 days. Work or school usually gets in the way but i can stil squeez in 2 or 3 hours. Daylight savings this weekend =( Screw the hour more sleep, i need one more hour for fish on.

I got a question for the whipped fellas out there:

Does life on the river really end when you get married?

I fish between 120-150 days a year. I told my wife before I married her about my addiction
to fishing and bowhunting. Her response after a few years was "you said it was bad, but I didn't think it was this bad".

This has been a great year except for the chronic tendinitis in my elbow.

F.J. out.

I hear the tendonitis thing. I have had to quit golf and fly fishing for two months thus far. Doc sez I can start golfing (in November, thanks, Doc) but lay off the fly fishing. Best year of salmon and steelhead in 20 years, and I can't use the long rod. Good thing back trolling a Kwikfish doesn't hurt the elbow.

prior to getting married 3 years ago, probably 200 days fishing and 30-40 days hunting, now 50-75 days fishing 7-10 days hunting, wouldn't change a thing.

About 40 trips a year spent fishing, about 50 trips per year hunting, if you count varmints, but most trips are relatively short and include both. A few years back I was lucky to get out fishing and hunting for a total of 20 days a year, combined, but the boys are older now, 2 and 5, and I get to take them with me more and more. As they get older, I am sure that my days afield will increase, with them by my side. (My wife will get more quiet time.) When I was single, I fished or hunted EVERY weekend, plus every day of vacation.

Like AKKings said, I wouldn't trade a day with my boys or wife to go fishing, unless it worked out with our schedule. Family is number one, and until you witness the birth of your own child, or find a great woman who understands you and is willing to work with you in a lifelong commitment, it is impossible to understand us "whipped" guys. You make sacrifices, and you are repaid many times over. Anyway, once you get married, it is just one big sex party, every single night! Right guys?

Andy

lets see.....
52 weekends X 2 days = 104 + 3 weeks vacation = 15 + 2 weeks sick leave = 10 + + 12 Boeing holidays.....141....yeah...give or take a few!

You guys are killing me. If I got as many days on the water as some of you lucky dogs are getting, I wouldn't know whether to $hit or go blind!

I get about 60-80 days a year, now that I'm married with kids. I used to get a couple hundred days a year when I was single. Not that my wife wouldn't let me go, but I just have other priorities I gotta keep up with too. I think I enjoy my time on the river more now, so maybe I'm really not losing ground.

Counted in my log from last year 210. Going to be close for this year also.

Bankwalker I've been married 22 years, the first few slow you down a little, but with 2 boys used to have them ask, she couldn't say no. Now you act like you want a "little" and she says "why don't you go fishing" Works like a charm

Fishhead5

It's so easy. I just set the alarm for 4 AM. When it goes of I roll over and ask the wife if " Hey Honey, Sex or Fishing, which would you prefer" she usually tells me to go fishing HA HA HA actually after 19 yrs of marrage, she just expects it. I came home this thurs afternoon from a few days fishing and she said what are you doing home so early?

OH, and Stew..........
When you learn to catch fish like us BIG DOGS, you will understand the tendenitis thing..............

Randy,
You must be salary, shoot, I only get 40 hours of sick leave a year,and I make it a point to use them all, but with all this O.T.
I have`nt had much of a chance to go fishing except for an hour here, an hour there.
But come contract time next Sept. if we go on strike, watch out, it`s make-up time..

There are benies of working nights and living in such a great area. The Hoh is farthest river away I fish and thats 13 miles south. If only to fish a few holes a day on any given river or multiple rivers I put in between 150 and 275 days a year depending on how the fishing is and the river conditions. Last year since we had good weather and low water I fished about 275 days the fishing could have been better but the weather was so nice you couldnt not fish.

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