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How often do you go?

I tend to get withdrawal symptoms if I don't get out at least once a week, but try to get out 2-3 times, occasionally more, less in winter.
 
Virtually every day I am not working from 2 to 6 days a week. I think I need to get a life lol.
 
I find it very awkward not to go fishing as i live in the village of Throop, and i can see the river from my window, so i suppose it must be about 8 days a week.
Brian Willson Throop Bailiff.
 
These last couple of months, not a lot at all. Now its getting a bit colder though, I reckon I should manage 2-3 evenings a week, all things allowing.
 
Far too much!

I'm yet to find a job after graduating from Uni, so have a lot of time on my hands and get out 3 times a week minimum.

I'm the ultimate time bandit :D
 
Once or twice a day when i first got home from uni, once i got my summer job just once or twice during the week and once or twice at the weekend
 
Depends how bright the fires burning inside. Been wasting a lot of time on lakes this year so only managed half a dozen trips on the Severn (and the results show!).

Now the rivers finally come up I`ll try to take advantage of it and get down there as much as possible. Went last night, planning on this evening plus Friday then two full days over the weekend.

Over the year it usually evens out at two to three trips a week though short `hit and run` sessions figure a lot in my barbel fishing.
 
Another factor that influences the amount of time available to fish, specifically for barbel, is the travelling time/distance to the river, My closest venue, 30-45 minutes drive from home, has time restrictions & you have to pack up one & half hours after dusk, which seriously limits fishing time especially when you don’t get back from work until 6.15pm.:(
The other venue I fish is reached via a couple of notorious motorways & takes from one & half hours-eternity travelling time, ruling it out for a short mid-week session. This leaves weekends to squeeze in fishing, quality time with the family, socialising (drinking!) & the occasional hook & slice around my local course. Subsequently I have managed five short 3 hour sessions on my local river & one 12 hour session on my other regular venue plus two days on the beautiful river Wye while on a week’s family holiday in June.

Regards
Andy
 
"The wife".

Yesterday afternoon I phoned a firm in Suffolk to check whether it had a couple of 30W (equivalent of 150W incandescent), fluorescent Daylight bulbs, telling the lady at the other end that I was an angler and needed the super-bright bulbs to light every inch of my room when I was fly tying...

"Don't say anymore!" she replied, with some passion but jokingly. "I'm not talking to you! My husband's an angler, and he has spent most of today moaning that he can't go fishing!"

I told her that I had similar "trouble" with a girlfriend and had had a lot worse in the past with now-ex others.

She laughed then and allowed me to order my bulbs.
 
Not as often has I could/should.
I have a wife who tells me to go fishing, and that person in my head who has always said, don't take advantage, and then I have another voice saying, 1 hour there and one hour back, nah.
So, whenever I fish or don't fish, is all my heads fault!!
 
A lot more this season than in the past. Once a week so far with a whole 3 day session at the start of the season.
I've finally started taking time owing me at work for working Saturdays and these days are spent on a river bank in midweek. Great time to fish as I normally get the pick of the swims.

Paul
 
Last season I hammered at it until it got too cold and was on the bank chasing barbel for a minimum of two days every eight and a maximum of four days every eight. This season I've reined in a little mixing things up a little after joining a stillwater syndicate. I've also taken to having the odd trip per month to the Trent. It's spoiled the local barbelling a little bit and I'm a little less keen to go fishing for a single bite. The fact that I nailed my target of a double from the middle/upper Swale inside the first couple of weeks hasn't helped much.
 
would love to get out every night but location and work means i cant - i am out most Saturdays depending who City are playing!!
 
Fred Bonney said:
Not as often has I could/should.
I have a wife who tells me to go fishing, and that person in my head who has always said, don't take advantage, and then I have another voice saying, 1 hour there and one hour back, nah.
So, whenever I fish or don't fish, is all my heads fault!!
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Sounds like she's sick of you as well; and if I were you I'd be careful of those voices in your head:D
 
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