Is Fishing Hard?

[Bass Babe]

Okay, here's the deal -- I catch fish. Small, medium, and kinda large -- you've probably seen pictures. But I suck at fishing. I tie lures on before I've threaded the line thru the eyes. I get hooked up on the bottom and lose 4 eels an hour. I get backlashes like no other. I hook lobster pot buoys with plugs. I fall. I thumb bluefish in the dark. Each trip I forget either my headlight or pliers or swivels or something crucial. I even eel-slapped myself in the face last nite after hanging up directly in front of where I was standing and yanking really hard. If you were me, you'd pass out with frustration every fishing trip. But somehow I manage to catch fish.

Does this mean that catching fish is easy? That I got shown some great spots? That I'm simply lucky? Rob Rockcrawler taught me how to fish and still helps me out quite a bit (which rocks -- not enough thanks can go out in his direction), so he has a big hand in my success. But I still can't understand how clumsy, forgetful, whiny old me can catch a fish. Do the fish feel bad for me? Is there something to catching that's beyond being slick? What's the explanation for this?

[RIJIMMY]

yes fishing is VERY hard

[Clammer]

B/B Sounds normal too me

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Clammer

B/B Sounds normal too me

He's been in my boat a number of times and he's not lying.

[Bass Babe]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

He's been in my boat a number of times and he's not lying.

Guess Clammer and I are in the same boat, as well...figuratively, that is. I haven't lost my pants before, though.

[seabass]

BB, fishing is not hard nor easy. Fishing is not skill or luck. Fishing is an obsession, it is the ultimate rush, it is the most relaxing day, it is sore arms like you've never had before, it is an adiction that people spend thousands and thousands on. Most of all, fishing is fun. It is fun for men, women, boys, girls....everyone! Shut up and fish, I'm laughing.

[Saltheart]

The answere to all your problems is ....time on the water. Put in enough time , it all becomes second nature. Sure you have good days and bad and everyone , even old salts F up now and then but the number of incidents goes down with time on the water. Unfortunately , after several decades of fishing , and getting by all the mistakes and building your knowledge of spots and techniques , you suddenly find out that the cost of all that knowledge was years of wear and tear on the old body. then , you know exactly what to do and how to do it but you just can't anymore. Oh well , that's fishing.


to the specific question ; is fishing hard? fishing is as hard as you want it to be!

[spence]

Yea, it's all about practice. I still do a lot of stoopid stuff, but I'm like an ace compared to when I first started. Lordy, to think about those nights learning to cast in the dark

-spence

[DRUMCORPFAN]

sara, the things you listed as forgetting to pack. will now be in your surf bag see your already getting better

[Rockport24]

All those things you listed about finding good spots and having some help may have attributed to your sucess, but you are doing one thing the normal googan does not you are fishing at night.