Killing time with this boring rant!!!!!! But its true!!!!

[eelman]

I sit here looking at my daughter taking a nap on the couch with the dog,Cute site!! (thank god she is napping)!!!!

Im thinking about frank giving all that advice on the other board.I think if frank told them to strip naked,bark at the moon and cast while holding there peckers in there hands , they would do it!

I love to fish,I always will, But Im going through a sort of "burn out" with it.I think alot of things are to blame.The internet is fun and all that but it made fishing a "24" hour topic and, I dont know about you guys but for me it kind of made me realize that there is more to the short life we all have than casting string at water and praying a hungry fish will eat. We spend thousands of dollars just to acheive that end.

I have had many good years on the water and tons of good memories that no one can take away.I want to look at fishing now as more of a fun sport and not as a job,as I have done for the last decade and a half.

The past few years,I would fish and then post about fishing,and then talk about fishing and then fish again and then write emails etc...etc...etc..... 24-7 eat sleep fish write,do it again until I could find nothing more to talk about on the subject.

There really is not a challenge to fishing any more for me anyway,I have done everything I wanted and then some.

Many of my friends have slowed way down,Joe flip,my rock solid partner for the last ten years went out a total of about 7 nights last year.My friend steve is feeling the effects of age and late nights combined with work,He never fishes past 11 or 12 pm at all anymore unless we make an island trip here and there.I now understand the way they feel,Although I am younger then them,I started fishing much younger than they did.We would all go fishing 7 nights a week 8 monthesout of the year and I swear from may until november I can count the times on one hand that I saw daylight????

I think fishing at that level is only bad and can lead to a prmature burnout.The internet just made fishing intergrate into life all the more,Now you cant escape at all,Its always there all year around the clock.

Take some advice and fish less!! Im looking forward to waking up this summer and seeing the daylight for a change!! Going to the beach without a ROD!! Not being to tierd to do anything with my family because I need to sleep all day!! Thats how divorces happen and, for the sake of my daughter,thats not something I want to happen.

I still plan to fish,but on my terms for a change,a couple of nights a week just to clear the cobwebs and enjoy it.I no longer get jealeous if someone has a killer night,Believe me, I have had my share of blitzy nights.

I also miss my friends that are slowing down and its just not the same anymore.Tim is leaving the fisherman and plans on spending more time in florida.

I also,hate the cold now, never did before but,now I hate it!!! Why should I go out on a fall night and freezz my arse off for a couple more 20lb fish?? what difference would it make in the overall scheme of things,Let the new blood have those fish.I will be curled up under the blankets on those nights!!

I want to catch my fish on 70deggree nights with a nice light wind and be back home by 11pm!!!

I have missed lots of chances in life because of fishing and, life is to short to miss out on anymore.I fished so much that I never saw the news!! My favorite station was the weather chanell !! Thats all I watched!! My favorite radio station was NOAA Weather and mike carbone's voice is still in my head!! "From the merrimack river to chatham ma, out to twenty five nautical miles,Tonight South wind increasing to 25knots waves 8 foot but around 4 at the bay entrance diminshing late" from chatham to watch hill out to twenty five nautical miles ,tonight Light south wind becoming southwest and increasing too 15 knots by morning,waves 4 to 6 feet, mostly in swells""" Sound familiar?? Thats the only "Music" I ever listened too.Now NOAA Uses some stupid automated voice?? Even that has changed.....

I think I was in COMA for 20 years and just found out they put a guy on the moon!!!

Seriously,Dont let the "hobby" become an obsession,It will never have a happy ending,You will end up hateing The very thing you love.............