Sharpie Secrets - Real secrets? Or plain common sense?

[partsjay]

Just have to learn how to live on 4 hours of sleep a night. I call it getting into "fishing shape".

Have twins....they will teach you that you don't need any sleep. Good luck telling your wife that your going fishing, and she has to get up with the kids if they wake up, after either one of you haven't slept more than 45 min. at a time for the last 4 months.
So I guess I will half ass it for this year..because I would rather do that than not fish at all......or be divorced.

[eelman]

Originally Posted by partsjay

Have twins....they will teach you that you don't need any sleep. Good luck telling your wife that your going fishing, and she has to get up with the kids if they wake up, after either one of you haven't slept more than 45 min. at a time for the last 4 months.
So I guess I will half ass it for this year..because I would rather do that than not fish at all......or be divorced.

well thats why I waited for those years to go by, now my daughter is 8 and those days are behind us, now We have to wake her up! she is in bed by 9 and wakes sometimes at 10!! Thank you god!

Seriously, I would not risk divorce ( unless the fish was a 60 ) I did not miss much when I was off the game but I would still rather be out of it than go once a week and hear my friends are killing them when I cant go, I hate those morning after phone calls, so what I did was just not talk to anyone, read anything .I paid my dues changing diapers and taking care of my child all day, I am glad I did and it made us close but now dad can fish again!!

But hey this thread is getting off topic!

[piemma]

I fished a lot when my kids were little but it was always in the middle of the night. I'd hide my fishing pants and shirt in the den closet. I'd get up at 2 sneak out so I didn't wake my wife and be back by dawn. I am a striper addict and admit it.

[spence]

Paul, on a realted note. There were just enough good parts in that 704 you loaned me to fix my broken one

-spence

[piemma]

I will hunt you down like the dog that you are........

[Bass Babe]

Uncanny things make me wonder, like when a good fisherman says to me, "Why don't you try pausing your retrieve?" I stop it, and half a second after that, I get a bite. Or, "This cast you'll catch a fish," and I hook up. Or, "We're getting into some party boys tonite, I know it," and two fish just about 40" come in, back to back. Perhaps it's luck, but it seems to be more than that. Good fishermen just...know things, it seems.

Also, I find that the ability to teach another person how to fish, including all the finer points, seems to only come with lots of experience and knowledge. You can tell when someone's BS-ing you, trying to sound like they know a bunch about fishing when they really don't. The good fishermen have a broad knowledge of all things fishing, and a great passion for that knowledge, along with the passion for the actual fishing. A passion, which, it seems, can be greater than that of personal or familial relationships sometimes. I don't think it's worth that sacrifice if to be the best fisherman, you need to put fishing before people. I'll settle for being a mediocre fisherman; that's fine with me.

[Rockport24]

you guys that can go out every night are lucky, I am lucky enough to go out a couple of times a week because I live about a 30 minute ride away to good spots, but I am looking to buy a house soon and you bet your @ss I will be looking for one closer to the ocean! like a 10 minute walk! good luck to me right? that way my fishing time will be maximized instead of wasting an hour driving..

[RIROCKHOUND]

Rock;
I know Piemma lives 1+hrs from the ocean, and a lot of other people on this thread live 30+min.... I live 2min from some spots and 45min from others, it's all about picking my prefered tides/times and going to the spots... sometimes its west sometimes its right under my nose...I'm still on the learning curve of this game, put me in a boat I can ALMOST always find fish, in the surf my gut instinct still needs some tuning

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

you guys that can go out every night are lucky, I am lucky enough to go out a couple of times a week because I live about a 30 minute ride away to good spots, but I am looking to buy a house soon and you bet your @ss I will be looking for one closer to the ocean! like a 10 minute walk! good luck to me right? that way my fishing time will be maximized instead of wasting an hour driving..

It's all according to how much you love Stripers. Back in the mid-90s my fishing partner and I were doing 600 miles every weekend to fish the Back beaches. Yep, 150 miles one way to P-Town. R/T Friday and Sat night.

I looked for property in Narragansett or anywhere in South County. I am just not rich enough. Cheaper for me to drive the 1 hour plus each way.

[Flaptail]

[ThrowingTimber]

Great post guys! I try and make it out even just for a few hours a night if thats all I can manage, I hate watching tv.