Quit my job, going trout fishing for first time in 30 years, wish me luck!

unemployable wrote:

Any advice? Haven't fished since I was 10.

I have an $89 blow up raft, a $29 pole, a flask, a small cooler, 2 lure, a small net, and a filet knife. Did I forget anything? Plan is to just float around a stocked lake for a few hours and catch a couple trout.

In the future I'd like to pick up radio to see if I can pick up any baseball games.

Is that you, James Comey?

Probably would do better if you have some fishing line and reel.

Learn to fly fish

Have fun, but be careful. Sometimes what starts out as a simple past-time morphs into something else and the next thing you know, it turns into a job, a career, a life-sucking trap, and you're right back to where you started from.

nip that work sh!t in the bud, bud wrote:

Have fun, but be careful. Sometimes what starts out as a simple past-time morphs into something else and the next thing you know, it turns into a job, a career, a life-sucking trap, and you're right back to where you started from.

Yeah, sounds like maybe you should just go for a run instead...

Take a PFD (personal flotation device).

Working_Stiff wrote:

nip that work sh!t in the bud, bud wrote:

Have fun, but be careful. Sometimes what starts out as a simple past-time morphs into something else and the next thing you know, it turns into a job, a career, a life-sucking trap, and you're right back to where you started from.

Yeah, sounds like maybe you should just go for a run instead...

Why is it that no one fantasizes about quitting their job and going for a run for the first time in 30 years? Doesn't happen. Never would. And we all know why. It doesn't even make any sense.

Hell, I'd rather keep working.

Have fun and good luck.

You'll probably be bored out of your mind by the end of the first day.

1) Can we get an update? Maybe some photos of anything you caught.

2) Why did you have to quit your job to go fishing? What prevented you going fishing the last 30 years? That's what I'm curious about. What the job super demanding? Do you have some ridiculous family commitments? Even then, it seems like the kids would like to go.

Details on the finishing and the last 30 years please.

rojo wrote:

1) Can we get an update? Maybe some photos of anything you caught.

2) Why did you have to quit your job to go fishing? What prevented you going fishing the last 30 years? That's what I'm curious about. What the job super demanding? Do you have some ridiculous family commitments? Even then, it seems like the kids would like to go.

Details on the finishing and the last 30 years please.

1.) . The weather started out perfect for fishing, but it was opening day and bound to be a bit crowded, so I thought I'd be lazy and let the real fisherman limit out early and go home and then check things out in the afternoon. I really just wanted to get a couple of hours out on the water as a test run. Around 4:30 this afternoon things were starting to clear out on the lake, so I started inflating the boat and cracked a beer. Was all ready to go , when the spring day suddenly turned dark , thunder sounded and ice started falling from the sky. 30 mins of hail was followed by snow, so i packed it in and called it a day. On the drive home , things cleared right back up, but I didn't feel like turning back around.

Once I got home, I saw that just little ways away, a certain Jamin King had just run 14:57in the 5k, and I put 2 and 2 together. Jamin had obviously drawn on dark and mysterious powers to break 15:00 mins. I'll give it another go on Monday, when the crowds clear and Jamin is safely out of town.

2.) My job required me living in cities and being on call at any time to work 70-90 hour weeks at the drop of a hat with no advance notice. I've worked back to back 40 hour daysbefore. While I've had many free weekends, my job just left me too drained to feel like planing on driving an hour or two to go fishing on my one or two days off, let alone the doing the prep needed to get into fishing. The last straw was having the entire department's Christmas bonus cut two weeks before Christmas for not hitting projections on a project. This week the project was released and is on it's way to earning a billion dollars in its first week on the market, with a real possibility of becoming the most profitable product of all time in its category. None of that profit is ever going to be passed down to the people who put the work in creating the product. In fact our pay and benefits are being slowly eroded. Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and go fishing.

Bad Wigins wrote:

How do you fish specifically for trout? Can't another kind of fish come along and seize the bait instead, and then you caught something else. So aren't you just generally fishing then?

It's a stocked body of water you moran.

Bad Wigins wrote:

the abcs and123s wrote:

different bodies of water are known for different species, either through natural selection or artificial stocking. If one is fishing for halibut, one would probably not go to a trout lake.

not for the want of someone trying in vain to stock it with a saltwater fish. There is more than one kind of freshwater fish.

Calling a "trout" body of water a lake is like calling an apple orchard a forest. What an ecological joke.

Anadromous is a word you could look up.

Trout Lake wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

How do you fish specifically for trout? Can't another kind of fish come along and seize the bait instead, and then you caught something else. So aren't you just generally fishing then?

It's a stocked body of water you moran.

Bad Wiggins knows nothing about fishing. Sadly, he doesn't know how little he knows.

Love the earth wrote:

Trout Lake wrote:

It's a stocked body of water you moran.

Bad Wiggins knows nothing about fishing. Sadly, he doesn't know how little he knows.

Sometimes outsiders have the best insights

unemployable wrote:

rojo wrote:

2) Why did you have to quit your job to go fishing? What prevented you going fishing the last 30 years? That's what I'm curious about. What the job super demanding? Do you have some ridiculous family commitments? Even then, it seems like the kids would like to go.

Details on the finishing and the last 30 years please.

2.) My job required me living in cities and being on call at any time to work 70-90 hour weeks at the drop of a hat with no advance notice. I've worked back to back 40 hour daysbefore. While I've had many free weekends, my job just left me too drained to feel like planing on driving an hour or two to go fishing on my one or two days off, let alone the doing the prep needed to get into fishing.

Something smells fishy...

Went in Monday morning, worked straight through till about 2 am Wednesday morning...8 hours off included 30 mins commute each way and then back to work Wednesday morning till about 1am on Friday morning. Fun stuff.

Extra fun, was in the middle of those 8 hours off, i got a call that woke me up, from a boss, wondering where I was.

Love the earth wrote:

Trout Lake wrote:

It's a stocked body of water you moran.

Bad Wiggins knows nothing about fishing. Sadly, he doesn't know how little he knows.

Where did I claim to know about fishing in that question, and where did the OP say the "lake" was stocked with only one species?

I know nearly everything, including why you beta sickos spend your frustrated lives lashing out instead of looking for things you like. If you understood just how much I know, you'd break down in helpless despair and spend the rest of your lives on psych meds in a vain attempt to recover your long-lost egos.

FishPun wrote:

unemployable wrote:

2.) My job required me living in cities and being on call at any time to work 70-90 hour weeks at the drop of a hat with no advance notice. I've worked back to back 40 hour daysbefore. While I've had many free weekends, my job just left me too drained to feel like planing on driving an hour or two to go fishing on my one or two days off, let alone the doing the prep needed to get into fishing.

Something smells fishy...

+1

This thread is a troll, you morans.