I'm good for 3 a week.Every week ! Sometimes more depending on my luck and what the rest of the family is doing.Summer this year may slow a little more than last.May use it for repairing relations between her and I.Then sept-dec it's back on full force.

3X's would be at the least, some weeks morning and nights so it would be 14X's most seasons I do about 200 trips to the surf

My boat has been sitting next to the house for 2 years now

3-5 sounds like a reasonable avg over the course of the entire season.

:hihi:Daily!! Sometimes twice -- nice to be retired. :blush:

Used too, now I got excuses. I'm tired. Not a lot of fish around. Price of gas sux. Family obligations. I'ld rather put myself in the postion to catch a quality fish and get skunked then fish my ass off for the occasional 20#.

I do a consistent three except from May 15 to July 10 and September 1 to November 10. During those times, it's 4-10 (some days I go before work and then do the night shift after) times a week. BUT I'm not one of those guys who goes out no matter what, if the water sucks I stay home and put cookies in the jar for when the water is good again. And I no longer do all-nighters I've learned that it's an absolute waste of time---unless I'm slamming them, then I stay 'til they quit. :)

-Dave

In sept I did one trip for three nights to the cc canal.An 2-3 night trips to Montauk.One stretch after that in NJ I did 22 of 23 nights.In the late spring I will be out more.. many times 2 a days..First light an dawn..
Most nights I go for a few hrs..with all nighters fri an sat..I have area's to move to make tides.

I would fish more but I don't have the stamina I used to..

Valby RULES!!!!

At least 1 sometimes twice a day

3-4 times for me. Anymore and I would prob be single. Even now I have to keep a fish every couple of weeks so she will believe I am actually fishing. But she doesnt hassle me so I can deal with with it.

That's called being efficient.

average at least 100 days per year,try and go every day spring-tides-weather-wind-etc. factors.start end on march and pretty much to dec.less days later on in year.

3 - 5 trips per week from April through November is about right for me. It gets harder and harder each year between work, the mortgage, family life, living over an hour form the closest saltwater, etc... When I was younger and still living with my mom, I had seasons fishing 6 - 7 nights a week plus working a full time job and somehow finding time for school. Those were good times, but I get so much out of my family these days it more than offsets less time spent on the water.

once i have my own vehicle it will be 8-10 times a week...:blush:

Hye, when I was 17/ 18 yrs. old & finally got my vehicle & License... I did nothing (in- season) BUT fish anytime I was off from school! (Off- season I cleaned out the fishing gear in my vehicle, for my dates!). When I was biking only to fish pre- car... I still fished 3- 4x / week or more when in the "right" Seasons! :bl:


Still Single & no kids yet... so happily still fishing as much as I choose! :boots:

In May & June & Oct. & Nov., I'm fishing on average 5.5 days/ week or so, 65/ 35% or so Surf, to Boat... (I do have a GF & live in NYC no where near my prime spots-- otherwise I'd fish more those months! :angel:). April, July, Aug. & 1st half of Sept. I'd say my effort is approx. half that...

Jan.- April: NO FISHING AT ALL! Got to re-charge the batteries & legs, & pay the Bills & see the Woman sometimes! :huh: :heybaby:

That prick Back beach did that and still landed more large than me last year.. oh, I forgot you're right here Mike... :gu::hee::hee:

Hey, the internet is a powerful thing. There's really no need to fish every night. I'm currently developing a computer program that will accept all kinds of input like wind, tide, location, moon phase, target species etc. Once that data is entered you simply connect to any fishing site's reports section and let the software do the rest. The end result is you’ll spend all of your time catching and will only need to be on the water, get this, ONE night per week. It will tell you exactly when, where, and how at the push of a button. You can even choose between small and large fish too. The plug fishermen are going to love it. :rolleyes:

I'm going to need some beta testers, any volunteers?

This sounds great Mike. Let me know when this is up and running. I'll surely get the handicap into single digits when you roll this out.:btu:

i average three trips a day.. catch both highs and then a low. with a nap between. though sometimes it just turns into a 16 hour marathon.. i really need to find a real job..

that kinda takes all the fun out of it doesnt it?

I'm going to call it "Guaranteed Surf 50 in an hour" by Back Beach technologies. Its easier than turbo tax.

Everybody's jealous of somebody, Bryan/ RIR... :tooth:


I thought I was doing good last Fall with my # 33 on Darter from M. surf on approx. Oct. 15th... 'till I heard later you did 2 (3?) better in a "slow" S. County Fall! :cheers:

I was getting out about 3 times a week may and june, less rest of the summer as the fish are a longer drive. This year with a 2 1/2 yo and new born, I am guessing it will be less

3 times a week was about average for me. My wife goes to school nights so I had open nights when she was at school. I'll be starting grad school next year myself and kids are not too far off the horizon, so this season may be my last 3-5 times a week season for a LOOOnggg time.

Not that long - Only twelve years or so....

last season, it was usually a weekend thing. but that will change.

Hey seriously though, if you're one of the people who doesn't live near the water or has other responsibilities, it’s critical to pick your spots and timing. When it comes right down to it, I do a lot of prepping/study of the spots I frequent and how the factors may affect them. Even with a lot of years doing this, I’m still lucky if I bat .300. That means if I’m putting in those three nights during a week, only one is going to produce anything substantial, meaning one large fish. The other two nights are usually non productive in terms of numbers and sizes as it gets tougher to track what’s going on and becomes more a matter of throwing darts. The upside is every once in a while you hit the bulls eye, but you can’t possibly out produce people that do it 5, 6, 7 nights a week. Accepting this fact has made it easy for me to endure countless skunkings in hopes of being right every once in a while.

Early May - Late November i'm out probably 3X a week.

The more you fish the better pulse you have on what the fish are doing, the better you do. Experience gives you more "calendar spots," days when so long as the weather is favorable, the odds are very good - no recon necessary.

Well said.
more nights just means more chances to bat .300, but I bet that average stays about the same... unless of course you find a pod of fish and can hit them for weeks on end in the same area :sled: then you hit it as hard as possible :lama:

Bingo
Bingo

You need to be out 3+ nights per week to have the pulse of where they are AND others out that often on speed dial.

That is why my fish pulse is lackluster, I don't have the time out on a weekly basis to track 'em - that, and I suck :bl:

I wish I could get out more often. Busy work week. Put in most of my work on the weekend.

Exactly, this is my biggest challenge.

-spence

Some people's catch ratios are so high you would not believe it. (Not me.)
People I know who have fished a lot places including Rhode Island have told me that the fishing here is more predictable.

yeah and it gets very frustrating when you do put in the 3-4X a week and get nothing!! I haven't thought too much about my goals for next season but I think I just have to be more mobile and try more spots

Sunday night through Thursday night... no weekends.

I'm out 4-5 nights a week, depending on tides, wish I could fish all day every day though, once I hit the lottery I guess

Spence you have more challenges than that...:fishin: hell you wont leave the house if you don't match; thats why you never fish... no fashion sense...

When I was younger give me a break..:smash:
Trust me on this..do it now while u can..
Your only young once..:uhuh:

When they first reach the hahbah i'll sneak in that third or fourth sunrise a week. And again on their way back south i'll try to add a nite or two to the island with deer all over it.

Haven't done the SaugRiver circus, yet. May check that out this spring and that would afford me some more entries into the basslawg :jump1:

Gotta keep it to weekends primarily with bride and child. My daughter will be 5 in april. the encouraging thing is my wife loves sunrises and soon the baby will be old enuff to get hooked :uhuh: :uhuh:.