What's the one piece of advice you wish you had known when you first started fishing? I'm curious especially for the old timers who've been fishing for a long time. Any wisdom you want...

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What's the one piece of advice you wish you had known when you first started fishing?

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Apr 3, 2024 10:34:49 #

MindfulMuser2246 Loc: Michigan / Florida

I'm curious especially for the old timers who've been fishing for a long time. Any wisdom you want to share?

Apr 3, 2024 10:59:12 #

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

My one piece of advice I already knew. It was from my father. If you fish offshore make sure you have a compass and know how to use it. Electronics can fail anytime. Check you direction on the way out and add 180 Deg. to that number and you'll get home safely.

Apr 3, 2024 11:02:56 #

Slimshady Loc: Central Pennsylvania

Patience.

Apr 3, 2024 11:11:34 #

BongsonBob Loc: East Bay

That you don't need to catch fish to have a good time

Apr 3, 2024 11:21:05 #

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

"IT" doesn't always work out.

Apr 3, 2024 11:23:18 #

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Try and learn something every time you're out there.

Apr 3, 2024 11:25:56 #

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Slimshady wrote:

Patience.

I am with Slim on that one. Being a kid at the time, patience was not a strong suit.

Apr 3, 2024 11:38:42 #

DCGravity Loc: Fairfax, VA (by way of Cleveland OH)

MindfulMuser2246 wrote:

I'm curious especially for the old timers who've been fishing for a long time. Any wisdom you want to share?

Match the hatch. As a kid it was either "crawlers" or "minners", which, thinking back, although I caught fish, it probably limited the type of, if not quantity, of fish I caught.

Apr 3, 2024 11:51:32 #

ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN

That the time I spent learning to fish with my grandfather and father was time I would never get back. The value of that time can't be duplicated.

Apr 3, 2024 12:18:47 #

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

ghaynes1 wrote:

That the time I spent learning to fish with my grandfather and father was time I would never get back. The value of that time can't be duplicated.

I agree.
Make the most of WHO you're fishin with.
ESPECIALLY if it's family or GOOD friends. For there will come a day that they will be gone. Unless you go first.