Anyone else literally obsessed with bass fishing, to the point that it’s all you really want to do with your free time? I went from cabrewing, to kayaking and fishing, to kayak fishing...

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Anyone else literally obsessed with bass fishing, to the point that it’s all you really want to do with your free time?

Jan 7, 2022 11:06:15 #

FS Digest

I went from cabrewing, to kayaking and fishing, to kayak fishing exclusively.

Now I fish year round, even when I’m not catching I am just happy to be casting. I am fascinated by the ecology of creeks and rivers, the forage of smallmouth and the patterns and behavior of everything that lives in the streams around me.

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by GHicks126

Jan 7, 2022 11:26:11 #

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

FS Digest wrote:

I'm right there with you, as long as I can remember I loved the water and critters in it. At 23 I caught my first memorable Smallmouth Bass and from that time forward I've been hooked. This time of the year I'll spend some time Crappie Fishing for freezer fish then right back to Smallmouth.

Jan 7, 2022 15:11:56 #

Ben Bragg Loc: Dayton Ohio

Guilty.

Jan 8, 2022 07:47:13 #

mbrillhart1957 Loc: Southeast Wyoming

I'm guilty also. If I'm not fishing I'm thinking and planning about fishing. I think it is a healthy obsession. The tug is the drug.

Jan 8, 2022 09:01:50 #

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

I use to trout fish n bank fish for cats n carp. Tried bass fishing n my first 18" sm hooked me deeper than I hooked him. Still on the hook 🎣🎣

Jan 8, 2022 13:40:19 #

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

It seems most of us on here regularly have that affliction.

Jan 8, 2022 13:58:02 #

Jim Kay Loc: Franklin, Virginia

Bass and all other species for which i Fish.

Jan 8, 2022 16:09:08 #

HenryG Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts

mbrillhart1957 wrote:

I'm guilty also. If I'm not fishing I'm thinking and planning about fishing. I think it is a healthy obsession. The tug is the drug.

Guilty also

Jan 8, 2022 19:06:03 #

runandgun Loc: East Texas

Ever since fishing with my Dad with a cane pole, string, gold hook and worms for catfish in a creek, I've been hooked. It's a welcome challenge to study each species' habitat and seasonal patterns to figure out how to catch them. Everybody has a job of some sort. Sports, hunting, fishing are a diversion to apply energies to something else satisfying in ones life. Fishing is my diversion.

Jan 8, 2022 19:57:13 #

Bluetarheel Loc: Oregon

Totally understand. Being from Texas I, too, felt that way. BUT I did not understand obsession until I started fishing for steelhead here in the northwest. In Texas I didn't get up at 3:00 AM in order to drive through snow, stand in a stream with 38 degree water for six hours waiting for that one bite and when it comes, being ecstatic.

Jan 8, 2022 23:12:14 #

Langer Loc: Lake Havasu City, Arizona

I caught a couple of nice LM Bass from August to October and have been hooked ever since! I live in Palm Springs which is 165 miles to the south shore of Lake Havasu. I retired last December and drive over at 4am almost every Wed/Thurs and spend the night in Havasu City. Take my wife every other week and just love it, even in winter. We each have a 10' kayak and I just got back from a solo trip last night without a hit in 2 days of casting! So maybe I'm not a great fisherman but that's OK, I'll catch 'em when the water warms up. I figure 400 casts in a 6-8 hr session and all the summer weed beds are gone so it's a lot different hunting for them this time of year.

Jan 8, 2022 23:16:00 #

Langer Loc: Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Here is a shot of Havasu from my recent trip, crazy that I've been putting 2,500 miles/month just to fish AZ! This is a shot of the sun going down yesterday in the Mohave desert about 40 miles into CA.

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