On a good night, I like my job, so I can't really get behind the saying because making money doing something you don't mind doing is pretty nice and I've had some awful days on the water that were worse than some of my really bad days at work.

 

 

i think it is only a bad day if you end the trip at the hospital... any time on the water is a great day.

me and my friend decided to skip the gym and hit the lake this morning. i keep a 14’ jon boat at a small lake near the house. despite the threat of certain rain, the radar was clear at 6:30 and we were casting at 7:30. almost immediately it began a light rain. continued raining on and off for the next hour or so. we were hanging them and it was a nice break from the hot May sun. then i saw “it”, a gray wall of torrential, tropical rain about two hundred yards away and headed towards us. it was too late, no escape, neither covered boat slips, nor bridges, just the open sky. a run back to the dock would have been useless. so we fished on, laughing, cussing, and catching fish. i hollered a couple times as the water ran down the back of my shorts. my Skechers were swamped. it rained hard. after the great flood we fished on. thank you God for good friends, good fishing, and auto bilge....and for no lightning ?

4 minutes ago, lo n slo said:

me and my friend decided to skip the gym and hit the lake this morning. i keep a 14’ jon boat at a small lake near the house. despite the threat of certain rain, the radar was clear at 6:30 and we were casting at 7:30. almost immediately it began a light rain. continued raining on and off for the next hour or so. we were hanging them and it was a nice break from the hot May sun. then i saw “it”, a gray wall of torrential, tropical rain about two hundred yards away and headed towards us. it was too late, no escape, neither covered boat slips, nor bridges, just the open sky. a run back to the dock would have been useless. so we fished on, laughing, cussing, and catching fish. i hollered a couple times as the water ran down the back of my shorts. my Skechers were swamped. it rained hard. after the great flood we fished on. thank you God for good friends, good fishing, and auto bilge....and for no lightning ?

Been there, done that. 

I will take a bad  day on the water getting skunked over my best days at work every single time. My new job really put a halt on my fishing. But now my son's out of school so my rod and backpack are riding shotgun for the next 3 months and ima put some hours in on that reel.