Always excited to get out on the water. I remember being a little kid and getting my sports uniform and equipment laid out and ready the night before a game. I guess sometimes we just never grow up.
I hope I never grow up.
Pre-spawn Fatties are waiting for you.
I'm right there with ya! Headin to the Big O on Monday for 2 days then Rayburn at the end of next week!
I love preparation. Always have. Just like you mentioned laying out your jersey before a big game, or getting your combos and tackle ready to hit the water.
Kansas:Largemouth-La Cygne, Smallmouth-Milford, Spots-Wilson State Lake.
If I ever lose that excitement then it's time to stop fishing.
As a child, I’d miss whole nights of sleep in anticipation for a fishing trip. It’s funny to look back on it now. My father had friends who were conservation officers. They would tip him off on the trout stocking schedule. He’d talk about it for days, building up my excitement. I wouldn’t sleep for a few days. Every time I he took me fishing was the best day of my life. Now that I have kids of my own, I like to do the same thing with them. My girls get super excited, but I do!
I was actually up all night last night thinking about where to fish today and what my plan should be, checking topo maps, wind, etc. The anticipation never gets old to me.
Im 60 and have been bass fishing about 35 years. I fish smaller lakes and ponds and love finesse fishing. Fave baits are ned rig, zoom trick worms, etc. I also love topwater fishing. I fish from a 17 ft osagian canoe, and use a portable depthfinder.
smaller lakes and ponds in north central Missouri.
Getting ready is a big part of the fun of fishing. I'm still just as enthusiastic at 61 as I've ever been. Good luck out there.
I take several fishing trips a year ranging from a few days to a few weeks. I’m a big planner, using checklists and schedules. I pride myself in being prepared for most things that may come up. The only thing I don’t enjoy is organizing which fishing tackle I’m going to take. Im not one of those who takes everything I own on every trip. For example, I’ve got 4 boxes of top waters, but I’m only going to take a few, and I have to decide which are going, and which are not. Same thing with every other style of bait I own. I quickly get bored with having to make so many decisions. It’s the only part of the trip I don’t enjoy.
Mother Nature won out today. Weatherman said it would be 42 with a light wind this morning. Well, it was 36 with about a 20 mph N wind. We got on the water about 8:20 and my phone said 28 wind chill. We tried to find a point on the N side of the lake out of the wind. We had no such luck so we just fished a point I was familiar with. We threw a jerkbait, jig, underspin, ned rig and a senko. Caught nothing and moved to the other side of the lake to fish some grass I had found last time. We tried a lipless, senko, jig, brush hog and the ned rig again. I could only fish for about 10 min before I would have to stop to warm my hands up. My gloves were not in my bibs (my fault for not checking). The wind picked up and it started to sprinkle so we called it a day. Fishing is fun, but not when you are miserable and the conditions today made it pretty miserable.
Getting ready never gets old.
That is fishing. What's cool is, you'll be just as ready for the next trip.
That feeling the night before a big trip really does never get old. My Dad and I fish and we both concur that sometimes its hard to sleep the night before a big trip, particularly if we are fishing together. I work in the sportfishing industry and I have been telling people for years that sometimes it feels like being a kid on Christmas eve. I think a lot of it has to do with getting up so early just like when we were wee tykes on the 25th of December.
Same here. We've got way too much stuff. I find that the less I have with me the more fish I catch and vice-versa.