Ok I have been a fisherman for most of my life, basically since I could hold my first ‘snoopy pole’ I was fish’in.
I watch people at work (I’m a teacher) and they piss and moan about hating their job, disgruntled students, Nazi administrators etc…etc…I am the only one who never complains about work, I guess cause I love being a teacher, but I wonder if it truly has to do with Fishing. I fish just about everyday afterwork. Only for an hour or so but I do, I get out there, unwind, have a smoke and fish…I am markedly less stressed than my other cohorts and Mrs.Phlosphr and I almost never argue! I guess the next best thing would be to quit my job and get paid to fish.
Jimmy Houston does it, why can’t I. I just don’t get it, some people are just waaaay to lucky.
Any other long-time fisherman/woman who’d like to get paid to fish…?
For me it’s more where I fish than the fishing itself. If I’m in the Gulf of Mexico, I’m going to be throwing up the whole time and I just don’t find that very relaxing. If Im on a Texas lake I’m going to be sweating that ass off and swating mosquitos and wishing I was back home on the couch. But if I’m pulling rainbows out of beaded drainage on a Colorado mountainside the yeah, it would be pretty nice to get paid for that.
Oooh, I wish I had time to fish. This may sound crazy, but since my dear husband has “discovered” fishing, I hardly ever get to go anymore. I grew up with a fishing pole in my hand, and absolutely love it. I used to take off by myself after work, or we’d go together on the weekends.
Over the last two years, Mr. Elf has become a full-on pike and muskie fishing hobbyist, with thousands of dollars of large tackle and a boat. He has a fishing buddy that he goes with - they leave at 3:30am and drive for 4 hours to find just the right lake NOT to catch muskie in. I stay home with the baby and his fishing buddy’s wife and their baby.
So would I love to get paid to hang out fishing all day? Hell yeah! As long as I’m paid hourly, not by the amount of fish I catch.
I was out on a lake for two weekends in a row, 20 hours each weekend, this past month. Kicked back, pole in hand, smoked a few cigs, ate some junk food, tanned up.
The next best feeling to reeling in that big one is when you get home and you shower off and pull on some clean clothes. Ahhhhhh.
I’m addicted to fly fishing. I tie my own flies, own several hundred dollars worth of equipment and materials, etc. Now if someone was willing to pay me to fish and otherwise shut up about it, it would be fine. If they had to tell me where I could fish, who with, and for what, I would have a big problem.
I have to think that fishing could possibly lead to marital bliss, if pursued in a natural, thoughtful, manner. But then you have guys like Mr.Elf, who leaves the person who could become his best fishing buddy ever, behind, at home.
Mrs. Daniels and I fish together frequently, and even keep a fishing log to which we both contribute. We engage in a little friendly competition over the course of the year, the winner of which receives a $100. gift certificate to our favorite sporting goods store. So, I guess on a very small scale, I am fishin’ for money!
I’m addicted to fly fishing. I tie my own flies, own several hundred dollars worth of equipment and materials, etc. Now if someone was willing to pay me to fish and otherwise shut up about it, it would be fine. If they had to tell me where I could fish, who with, and for what, I would have a big problem.
I have to think that fishing could possibly lead to marital bliss, if pursued in a natural, thoughtful, manner. But then you have guys like Mr.Elf, who leaves the person who could become his best fishing buddy ever, behind, at home.
Mrs. Daniels and I fish together frequently, and even keep a fishing log to which we both contribute. We engage in a little friendly competition over the course of the year, the winner of which receives a $100. gift certificate to our favorite sporting goods store. So, I guess on a very small scale, I am fishin’ for money!
I guess what Mr.Daniels said was pretty much on the money.
If I left Mrs.Phlosphr home and went fishing in our new boat with my buddies, she’d most certainly have a thermal nuclear meltdown. We live in New England, so we have the ebst of both worlds, we can launch right in the ocean or go to a favorite lake.
Well Lieu I’ve fished lakes in Texas! I’d have to say it is some of the best Bass fish’in I’ve ever done. But it is quite hot especially in late June. But Last year a Buddy and I went on a trip to to his place in Trinity Texas, and fished a huge lake called Lake Livingston…north of Houston. Damn. We caught some huge Largemouth. I made the silly mistake of saying “I’ll rig up my Carolina Worm …” and the guy who was from Trinity almost shit his pants when he said…“Its a Texas rig, when your in Texas Bub…Don’t forgit it…” OOPS!
I could kick myself. I lived for 10 years in Idaho and waited until I moved to New Jersey to take up flyfishing. So now it’s the Pequest instead of the Henry’s Fork.
(its weird, but i don’t fish! guess what i do…)