Still gets me excited

Tom Butler · Mar 1, 2023

I may be 60, but I still get excited about early season lake fishing.

The brown chan's maribou micro leech was good. Never did rig the sink tip.

Just cookie cutter stockers for the most part, but I enjoyed playing with a few dozen spunky fish this morning.

Wanative · Mar 1, 2023

Tom Butler said:
I may be 60, but I still get excited about a early season lake fishing. View attachment 56370
The brown chan's maribou micro leech was good. Never did rig the sink tip.
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Just cookie cutter stockers for the most part, but I enjoyed playing with a few dozen spunky fish this morning.
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Even after 60 years of fishing I still get wound up the night before I go fishing.
Hard to go to sleep, wake up before I have to.

Tim L · Mar 1, 2023

Wanative said:
Even after 60 years of fishing I still get wound up the night before I go fishing.
Hard to go to sleep, wake up before I have to.

Great point. I have yet to meet an angler who needs to set an alarm.

dep · Mar 2, 2023

ditto on the excitement factor

Islander · Mar 2, 2023

Tim Lockhart said:
Great point. I have yet to meet an angler who needs to set an alarm.

I still get excited to go fish but never need an alarm. Mainly because I don’t start fishing until around 9 or 10am.

Bambooflyguy · Mar 2, 2023

I’m with you....we don’t need no stinkin alarm! Especially being retired! I’ve always fished the second shift.

Irafly · Mar 2, 2023

I still need alarms, but that’s a sleep disorder thing, not an excitement thing. Ask anyone who fishes with me how excited I still get about fish!

Tim L · Mar 2, 2023

Irafly said:
I still need alarms, but that’s a sleep disorder thing, not an excitement thing. Ask anyone who fishes with me how excited I still get about fish!

He gets excited.

Jim in Anacortes · Mar 2, 2023

Being as I'm an old guy, I always set two alarms. My cell phone (that I don't trust) and my trusty bedside alarm clock as a backup. Those plug in alarm clocks (even the ones that are decades old) are quite remarkably reliable. I trust my 1990's alarm clock more than I trust my i phone... For some reason that makes me smile.

jasmillo · Mar 2, 2023

I am about one year into trying to figure out this lake thing and I am getting more excited every day. Even though I have not stopped fishing lakes all year. I love SRC fishing and chum fry are getting me fired up too but I have a whole slew of lakes I am excited to try this spring. Trout, bass, musky, whatever.

I am headed out for my end of winter warm vacation soon and when I get back there are so many options out there to consider. Hate on WA all you want but I’ve lived in states without a tenth of the fishing opportunity this state offers us.

I need to retire. Or fish for a living. Or retire and fish for a living.

I set an alarm just in case but don’t need it pretty much any night before a day of fishing. The closest thing to Christmas Eve I have as an adult!

Kfish · Mar 2, 2023

Heck yeah, if it's in your blood you've got it for life! I set an alarm just to be safe although I always wake before the alarm goes off.

ifsteve · Mar 4, 2023

The day I sleep through the night and wake up and am not excited to head out is the day I sell my gear.

Matt B · Mar 4, 2023

Tim Lockhart said:
He gets excited.

How excited?

Tim L · Mar 4, 2023

Matt B said:
How excited?

Old406Kid · Mar 4, 2023

Matt B said:
How excited?

Let me just say that you definitely don't need your Miracle Ear to know if he's somewhere on the lake.

Islander · Mar 4, 2023

Old406Kid said:
Let me just say that you definitely don't need your Miracle Ear to know if he's somewhere on the lake.

I use to live on Goss Lake (Whidbey Island) and always knew when he was fishing Lone Lake!

skyriver · Mar 4, 2023

Old406Kid said:
Let me just say that you definitely don't need your Miracle Ear to know if he's somewhere on the lake.

I heard the guys talking at Lenice opener last year. "Wish Ira was here to liven it up a bit." I ask "So he gets a little exited, huh?" I can't remember who it was, but they said "you have no idea."

Irafly · Mar 4, 2023

skyriver said:
I heard the guys talking at Lenice opener last year. "Wish Ira was here to liven it up a bit." I ask "So he gets a little exited, huh?" I can't remember who it was, but they said "you have no idea."

Which doesn’t sit well with everyone, and I own that, but it is hard to suppress my emotions when I know that I’m about to crush the smallest fish landed in my group that day!