Rethinking my passion

[Mr. Sandman]

I understand your view. I am a little younger (58) and it is very easy to get upset at the current inshore fishing situation having seen what it was like when you were a kid. And Golf is a great game. There is a lot of satisfaction and fun with golf but it also has its share of frustration. My advice is to mix it up. Do a little of each. Cherry pick the your inshore fishing and get hooked up with others that can take you offshore a couple times a season, and play golf on the other days. You just need to do something slightly new. Doing the same thing year in and year out gets old after while. Whatever you do do not become a charter capt. Making a job out of something you enjoy turns what you love in to something you have to do on days when you would prefer not to do that...just for a few bucks. It generally makes for a big headache. I think the worst charter capt's are the guys who retired and do it part time..it is a loose - loose situation for all.

Don't get so hung up on SB. It's a grand fish but there is a lot more out there than SB.

My inlaw(s) live(d) in a FL golf course senior thing and I tell you they should re-name that place, "Purgatory" it is like Heavens waiting room. I enjoyed the golf when I visited over the years and it is a well manicured beautiful place but I could not live there watching everyone die every day. He just died a few weeks ago and I had to go down for a few days, no golf but I was glad to be home.

So do a little of everything and keep it looow stress, stop reading the newspaper and watching the friggin (bad) news all day. Don't push the hard core days on the water...cherry pick the weekdays when the bite is hot and the weather is great. Anything over 5-10 you should be playing golf and dining out with your wife.

This reminds me of a plumber I saw in Florida... he is a big fisherman and then name of his plumbing company is "Windy day plumbing" , when I saw that I said...that guy has the right idea about work.