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Fairweather angler?

Chris Jones

Chris Jones

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What is going on? I think I'm on the turn. I'm just coming to the end of another four days off without wetting a line. I think about doing so, I even get up early full of good intentions. When it comes to the crunch I just can't be bothered. I can find any number of alternative distractions. I know that, wherever I go locally and whatever I fish for, there's a good chance that I'll be wasting my time. I can feel a midweek trip further south coming on.;):D

Anyone else going through a distinctly apathetic phase?
 
Snap out of it Chris!!!!!!!! Call yourself an angler??????????:eek:
 
Chris Jones said:
What is going on? I think I'm on the turn. I'm just coming to the end of another four days off without wetting a line. I think about doing so, I even get up early full of good intentions. When it comes to the crunch I just can't be bothered. I can find any number of alternative distractions. I know that, wherever I go locally and whatever I fish for, there's a good chance that I'll be wasting my time. I can feel a midweek trip further south coming on.;):D

Anyone else going through a distinctly apathetic phase?
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yer, for 2 seasons now....:(
 
I must admit i was set for the off this morning but 2 degrees of frost put paid to that one. However a promising forecast for the weekend should get me out quite soon. Chris " dont become a butterfly" there is always a few chub to go at....
 
Fairweather

Chris Jones said:
What is going on? I think I'm on the turn. I'm just coming to the end of another four days off without wetting a line. I think about doing so, I even get up early full of good intentions. When it comes to the crunch I just can't be bothered. I can find any number of alternative distractions. I know that, wherever I go locally and whatever I fish for, there's a good chance that I'll be wasting my time. I can feel a midweek trip further south coming on.;):D

Anyone else going through a distinctly apathetic phase?
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And I thought it was just me!!
 
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Jon Frisby said:
I must admit i was set for the off this morning but 2 degrees of frost put paid to that one. However a promising forecast for the weekend should get me out quite soon. Chris " dont become a butterfly" there is always a few chub to go at....
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Shame on you Jon!
 
Having just returned from a month on Florida's Gulf coast with temperatures around 30C EVERY day I'm viewing my first trip back to the Severn tomorrow with a certain trepidation! However, I'm determined to go, though I fear it may result in my first blank of the season. I find that the apathy tends to set in after Christmas, some years it's February before I venture out again.
 
I find I just fish less, but still try to make the effort once a week. Though there are times I think about becoming a fair weather fisherman.
 
Last winter i sat on the bank alot!!! and now i think alot of the times were a big waste!
This year i hope i might have learnt! but last evening bloody freezing i realised i hadn't!!!

jamie
 
Time for a change maybe, go chase other species, there,s a lot more to fishing than sitting, waiting for that 3ft twitch!
Personally, I spend a lot of my time salmon fishing, actively hunting fish, one rod, on your feet all day, working the available water top to bottom, and when you get lucky the buzz is just unbeatable. I find it increasingly difficult to get back into the sit and wait type fishing, so I,am now fishing for realisticly catchable species, depending on the weather conditions, rather than just the ever hopeful hunt for barbel in hopeless conditions, you can never say never, but think I,ve got that teashirt, and nowlike the variation.
peter
 
Surely that's wot proper barbel fishing is about, wandering and chucking in lotsa different swims. :nod:
I haven't sat in just one swim for boris for so so many years, unless it's a banker.
 
Variety

I agree with Peter, investigate some other species. Try trout fishing as it is active and there is always something happening. It breaks up sessions staring at motionless rods. Don't try deadbaiting for pike, more of the same!
 
Chris
I think its a Northern thing.We try to convince ourselves that if Boris is feeding down south they will be up here.I made the mistake of being to focused on one species last winter so this year I am going to fish for Barbel when the weather and river is just right and then fish for other species when I think fit.
I have enjoyed roach fishing for the last two weekends with a 20ft rod and 1lb bottom as the river was not right for Barbel.Problem is when is it right or not.
I do find a trip to B&Q and a couple of days painting can regenerate the motivation.
Ken.
 
Hmmmm...I may end up regretting this post, but yes....motivation is a serious problem for me at present.

I have been going through a period of depression for some time now, finding it extremely difficult to motivate myself into doing anything at all, including fishing :rolleyes:

I think forced retirement, coupled with the loss of virtually my entire pension pot, and the worsening of my arthritis were the triggers, but I had hoped going back to my roots in barbel fishing would help sort me out...I certainly could no longer bear the long weekends in a bivvy any longer :p

Sadly, so far, and this is now towards the end of my first year of my retirement, I have only been fishing nine times....hardly the heady stuff I had hoped for :D....and as I say, I can't get my ass in gear to do anything else, either :eek:

Oh...and before someone else comes up with the thought....yes it does explain why I have the time to bore you all sh**less with seemingly endless mind numingly long posts :D:D:D

I WILL get back to some serious fishing soon, I promise...I am now (today :)) the proud owner of a barbel trotting rod...so salvation may be at hand :D Not sure how long I can hold a rod now, but is beautifully light, so I will give it a damned good go!

What am I like :eek:

Cheers, Dave.
 
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Peter Littleworth said:
Time for a change maybe, go chase other species like the variation.
peter
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Jim Foxall said:
I agree with Peter, investigate some other species.
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I'm not and have never been a one species type (there aren't that many sane all year round anglers up this way that are!). Simply haven't been able to drum up the motivation for any type of fishing.

Ken Jones said:
Chris
I think its a Northern thing.We try to convince ourselves that if Boris is feeding down south they will be up here.I made the mistake of being to focused on one species last winter so this year I am going to fish for Barbel when the weather and river is just right and then fish for other species when I think fit.
I have enjoyed roach fishing for the last two weekends with a 20ft rod and 1lb bottom as the river was not right for Barbel.Problem is when is it right or not.
I do find a trip to B&Q and a couple of days painting can regenerate the motivation.
Ken.
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Ken,
I've done pretty similar on my last few trips, minus the roach (dace and perch on the stick). Wish I could find the damned roach on the Swale though! I even did the same at the BFW meet, much to the amusement of a few. It certainly beat the hell out of watching barbel gear get swamped by weed after less than five minutes. I'm lucky with regards to the B&Q thing though. I rarely feel the need and don't have a significant other to nag me. ;) If it was a choice between DIY and a day ice fishing, naked, I'd be there with a ridiculously small rod. ;)

I suspect that I'll be sorted soon though. Trip organized for next Monday with good company and an offer of a day piking with someone that knows a bit more than the next to nowt that I do.
 
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