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

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...

I just can't imagine trying to live a 40 hour day in a 24 hour world.

General Tso wrote:

FishPun wrote:

Something smells fishy...

I just can't imagine trying to live a 40 hour day in a 24 hour world.

But, what if you lived in a cave? Is it still a 24 hour world?

For the first five weeks, he later learned, he lived on a 26-hour circadian cycle. On day 37, which to him was day 30, he experienced a strange break from routine and a shift in patterns, living through an overly long day, then sleeping for 15 hours. After this, his days fluctuated wildly, from 26 hours to sometimes as long as 40 or 50.

holy sht....life gets weird in a hurry.

waiting until tomrrow to go fishing since lakes were still busy today, decided to kill some time by watching Avengers (the project which I had worked on) and some lunatic almost shot up the theatre.

Insane.

Some dude stood up and started babbling about "End Times" and "False Gods" and people were shouting at him to shut up. He had a backpack on , but no one thought much of it, then someone shouted "Gun!" and there was a stampede.

I don't think any shots were ever fired, and I never saw a gun, but it really makes you think about how quickly things can end for any of us. Makes me think twice about wasting time on the internet all day. We never know how much time we have left. Cops have the guy in custody, i want to know more but also just want to not ever think about it again.

Im on a long bus ride so ill "bite".

Sure youre very good at semantics and at compiling information and connecting the similarities to support whatever argument youd like, but is that really knowing anything?

We can take the "teach a man to fish" lesson and say that you can read as many books and do as many scientific studies as youd like, you can even bust on the way a person who's not so concerned with being contrained by literalness describes things, but that person who goes trout fishing down the road certainly knows quite enough and speaks a language his buddies and other fishers understand.

Why are literal minded people so anxious to homogenize the world?

At any rate, not to distract, good to hear mr jobless is safe. Looks like the next chapter of your life wont be dull!

You wont catch any fish in a theatre, you phoney moran.

Did you bring the flask with you to the theater, or at least a few tall boys?

PooButt wrote:

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?

Maybe you can hook up with Bill Clinton, go bass fishin in Ark. And smoke some weed.

Look at the bright side: you live in a great part of the country if you want to fish. Plenty of fish up in the high mountain lakes once the snow melts. Take a ferry over to the peninsula and hit the coastal rivers. Hop on a plane and you are in SE Alaska in less than 2 hours (head up there in mid August and you can't keep the salmon off your line). Take a break and enjoy life for once.

OP: This is the most thought-provoking and inspirational thread on LRC in a very long time. Many years on, people will study it in search of happiness, and it will bring them a little bit more understanding.

Are you going through a mid life crisis? Trying to re create your youth is never a good idea.

Good luck! Remember everybody is always looking for something better and is never happy with their situation. It's human's greatest strength and weakness.

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

-Walt Whitman

What if you were a deep sea fish??? wrote:

General Tso wrote:

I just can't imagine trying to live a 40 hour day in a 24 hour world.

But, what if you lived in a cave? Is it still a 24 hour world?

https://nypost.com/2017/01/22/this-explorer-discovered-human-time-warp-by-living-in-a-cave/

For the first five weeks, he later learned, he lived on a 26-hour circadian cycle. On day 37, which to him was day 30, he experienced a strange break from routine and a shift in patterns, living through an overly long day, then sleeping for 15 hours. After this, his days fluctuated wildly, from 26 hours to sometimes as long as 40 or 50.

https://www.sciencealert.com/experiments-show-that-humans-can-sleep-for-days-when-living-alone-underground

This cave guy is pretty interesting. Way more than that fishing guy.

I love fishing and everything related to it. Once I did the same thing as you, didn't go to work, said I was sick, took a fishing rod from https://www.bestoffishing.co.uk/best-carp-rod-under-200/, fish food and tea in a thermos. All this was the beginning of a great hike that brought four rather big carp and one catfish. The catch then was wonderful and quite rich, which is why I recommend going out more often and spending time alone with yourself because fishing perfectly sets the brain in the right direction

Good luck.

Good luck mate. I am glad that you after so many years want to try fishing, I can tell you it's an unbelievable feeling. Personally, I love to fish after a hard and a long week at work, you just sit near the shore, or in a boat and relax, fantastic. Hope you will have a wonderful time, and good luck at catching fish, as a beginner you will need it. By the way if you want to do that for a first time, I recommend you a fishing guide.

https://thenatureinsider.com/guide-to-fishing/

Christinois wrote:

Good luck mate. I am glad that you after so many years want to try fishing, I can tell you it's an unbelievable feeling. Personally, I love to fish after a hard and a long week at work, you just sit near the shore, or in a boat and relax, fantastic. Hope you will have a wonderful time, and good luck at catching fish, as a beginner you will need it. By the way if you want to do that for a first time, I recommend you a fishing guide.

https://thenatureinsider.com/guide-to-fishing/

Thank you for support.