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Post by earnfisher on Nov 12, 2016 8:19:58 GMT
Am trying to figure out who has taken hours off my fishing day. In my youth I would go up my local river [White Cart.] and get a few trout. Would light a small fire and brew up a can of tea and cook some of my trout. Hide the fire and back to the fishing. Later on another fire and can of tea more fishing and then head home handing in trout to friends on the way home. Nice easy relaxes day. Now I seam to hardly have time to open my flask. Bob
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tenet
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Post by tenet on Nov 12, 2016 9:18:01 GMT
It's called "getting old"
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Post by herbie29 on Nov 12, 2016 9:54:21 GMT
In your youth the pressures of life most likely didn't exist for you like working and keeping a roof over your head so time had no £ value. Also you in your youth caught what appears to be good bag's of fish and you are still holding on the that dream and have to fish a lot harder to keep within touching distance of it to prove you are just as good at it as you were. It is always good to catch fish but I take it for what it gives either time on my own or in good company and enjoying my day along with the suroundings seenig things most people only see on tv or read about in books.
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Post by robmason on Nov 12, 2016 13:46:15 GMT
Really good OP Earnfisher and a feeling that I share too. Having said that in my youth I was always in a hurry to start fishing as soon as I arrived at the water. Now I do appreciate the time spent talking in the hut or next to the car or walking the river before starting. Nevertheless the day seems to go by quicker!
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Post by sinkingtip on Nov 12, 2016 13:54:58 GMT
It's called "getting old" Your right. I was looking at some old photographs recently of me as a youth lying fast asleep on the side of a loch with a barry load of rainbow trout placed (by a friend) around my person. This was a wee loch we used to 'poach' on the way home from having done an all-nighter (for salmon and sea trout) on the Ericht. Halcyon days indeed. These day's I seem to prefer fishing only if you can drive to the pools.
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Post by earnfisher on Nov 13, 2016 9:42:46 GMT
The passing years certainly slow one down. I seam to spend more time just enjoying being able to walk along the banks and watching the wildlife. Catching fish is not that important except when fishing with my son. Bob
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Post by dunkeld on Nov 14, 2016 11:29:07 GMT
The passing years certainly slow one down. I seam to spend more time just enjoying being able to walk along the banks and watching the wildlife. Catching fish is not that important except when fishing with my son. Bob I know the feeling Bob. Its going by quick, which on one hand is convenient as i'm running out of excuses why my mediocre catch rate is plummeting faster than Wee Nicks popularity.
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