32 minutes ago, WIGuide said:

I'm not married yet, but my girlfriend loves to fish. Not quite as much as me, but she's always up to go and it's actually what we did on our first date. She's currently going to school about 3 hours away and she gets jealous every time I tell her I'm going fishing because she just wants to go with. I think I might have found a keeper and although I don't think she'll be putting in 200+ days on the water a year I don't think she'd mind if I do as long as she gets to come with when she wants.

Unless she has a hump on her back, a lazy eye & asks to be called "Igor", marry that woman immediately...  

5 hours ago, AndrewJ said:

Now I did not even come close to 200 days (probably in the 75-100 days range) I will say it is easy to stay married and fish that much.  Just bring the wife with you.

 

 

45 minutes ago, WIGuide said:

I'm not married yet, but my girlfriend loves to fish. Not quite as much as me, but she's always up to go and it's actually what we did on our first date. She's currently going to school about 3 hours away and she gets jealous every time I tell her I'm going fishing because she just wants to go with. I think I might have found a keeper and although I don't think she'll be putting in 200+ days on the water a year I don't think she'd mind if I do as long as she gets to come with when she wants.

It's not the married part alone that makes it difficult. It's the married + little rugrat running around part. My wife likes to fish, but if we take my daughter, one of us isn't going to be able to fish, and it's not gonna be me. I'll count my blessings though, because next year I'll get to teach the little one how to fish.

2 hours ago, WIGuide said:

I'm not married yet, but my girlfriend loves to fish. Not quite as much as me, but she's always up to go and it's actually what we did on our first date. She's currently going to school about 3 hours away and she gets jealous every time I tell her I'm going fishing because she just wants to go with. I think I might have found a keeper and although I don't think she'll be putting in 200+ days on the water a year I don't think she'd mind if I do as long as she gets to come with when she wants.

  Get that one in the net quickly! 

I've got one like that....In fact, we went fishing on our wedding day....Her idea!

Not enough.... Hopefully a lot more next year...

3 hours ago, WIGuide said:

I'm not married yet, but my girlfriend loves to fish. Not quite as much as me, but she's always up to go and it's actually what we did on our first date. She's currently going to school about 3 hours away and she gets jealous every time I tell her I'm going fishing because she just wants to go with. I think I might have found a keeper and although I don't think she'll be putting in 200+ days on the water a year I don't think she'd mind if I do as long as she gets to come with when she wants.

Sounds like a keeper for sure !  Don't let her get away ... 

Enough but not ENOUGH.  

Never ever enough

Brother and I have made it out about... 20+ times I'd say. 

On 11/29/2016 at 7:48 PM, stk44 said:

How many guys that fish 200+ days are still married? I'll compile a list and plan on interviewing the top three. 

 

I think there are only two.  

 

On 12/2/2016 at 9:14 AM, WIGuide said:

I'm not married yet, but my girlfriend loves to fish. Not quite as much as me, but she's always up to go and it's actually what we did on our first date. She's currently going to school about 3 hours away and she gets jealous every time I tell her I'm going fishing because she just wants to go with. I think I might have found a keeper and although I don't think she'll be putting in 200+ days on the water a year I don't think she'd mind if I do as long as she gets to come with when she wants.

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Unless she has a hump on her back, a lazy eye & asks to be called "Igor", marry that woman immediately...:

 

This is just a guess but I suspect that 99 percent of the time any woman who allows you to fish 200 days a year looks like Igor and has a hump on her back.  

 

 

Probably 15-20 since I bought my rod in July. I'm hoping to squeeze in 3 more trips before the end of the year and obviously next year I'll put up better numbers!

On 11/29/2016 at 8:48 PM, stk44 said:

How many guys that fish 200+ days are still married? I'll compile a list and plan on interviewing the top three. 

How does that song go..... 

I'm sure it'll hit me, when i walk through that door tonight, yeah I'm gonna miss her, oh lookie there, I got a bite!

On 12/2/2016 at 10:02 AM, stk44 said:

It's not the married part alone that makes it difficult. It's the married + little rugrat running around part. My wife likes to fish, but if we take my daughter, one of us isn't going to be able to fish, and it's not gonna be me. I'll count my blessings though, because next year I'll get to teach the little one how to fish.

What is awesome is when they are finally old enough to take an interest in fishing. Not only does it provide for some great quality time together, but in teaching them from the basics up, you will find that you get a chance to go back and relearn things maybe a little better yourself, or maybe return to some great techniques that you for whatever reason left behind.

Here's my youngest with his first catch of the day from last weekend (he outfished me on the whole day).

 

1 hour ago, Oklahoma Mike said:

What is awesome is when they are finally old enough to take an interest in fishing. Not only does it provide for some great quality time together, but in teaching them from the basics up, you will find that you get a chance to go back and relearn things maybe a little better yourself, or maybe return to some great techniques that you for whatever reason left behind.

Here's my youngest with his first catch of the day from last weekend (he outfished me on the whole day).

 

Yeah, I definitely can't wait for that. It might give me a chance to slow down and relax for once. 

I'll be just over 300 days this years, it helps I work at the lake, so I can fish before, during (lunch break), and after work daily

I don't really keep track or anything but I'd say im around 125 days or so. Half of those days are just short shore trips where I'm at a lake 2 hours or less and 15 or so were saltwater trips.

On 12/7/2016 at 5:23 PM, stk44 said:

Yeah, I definitely can't wait for that. It might give me a chance to slow down and relax for once. 

When taking a youngster fishing for the first few times, relax aint on the agenda. Fun, yes. Rewarding, yes. Making memories, yep. Relaxing, uh, not gonna happen.

24 minutes ago, .ghoti. said:

When taking a youngster fishing for the first few times, relax aint on the agenda. Fun, yes. Rewarding, yes. Making memories, yep. Relaxing, uh, not gonna happen.

I would probably not fish and just supervise and help my daughter. It's gotta be more relaxing than paddling like a maniac all over the lake and casting or pitching as many times as I possibly can in 12 hours :-) 

Actually, this year was an improvement in time fishing because I retired in January.  Around June of this year I was speaking with a customer where I work part-time and he mentioned a bass club.  This club is small and all the Members are over 55 and oldest is early to mid-Seventies.  Turned out that four of the Members are guys I fished tournaments and clubs back in the day.  Twenty to twenty-five years ago.  We do two club tournaments a month from April through October and I got some practice days in on reservoirs I have never fished before.  So I would say I got 25 days in fishing this year.  Sure beats the time I  used to spend on the road for a company.

Hoping this year will be an improvement over last.  Looking forward to making all of the club tournaments and many trips away with my wife.  Something will have to give and it will probably be work.

9 days - sad to say.  Some were great others not so much.  Tried different lakes-didnt do too bad.  Always ended up back in Lake St Clair.

Between May and November I fished 46 times, mostly on weekends.

I would say I fished around 75-100 days this year. Many came from steelhead season when I went almost everyday after school. 

Fished 98 days this year. Usually get around 150 days a year, but the river fishing was really down this year. Many of my trips are on my way to work, so they are shorter, but it is still fishing:)

I havent been out enough times! lol

Now that the lakes around here are iced over and i'm done for the year, I finished with a total of 268 days fishing.  I would like to hope that the ice will be thick enough to get out ice fishing on before new years, but I doubt it will.

150-175. gonna go for 200 next year…………we'll see what happens.