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| I have no problems what so ever sleeping every other day of my life. Even the night before deer season begins. However the nights before I go musky hunting It takes me sometimes 4 hours tossing around before I finally go to sleep. I tell myself I am not going to think about what cabbage bed to start on, or what color topraider I am gonna have my buddy throw, or what direction I am going to run my figure eight etc..... My friend tells me a 1/2 bottle of crown works for him, But I am not a drinker. Anything you guys do that helps you keep your mind from wandering the night before a hunt? I am to the point I am better off not going to sleep. |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Just go night fishing. You can sleep when your dead!! |
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Location: In a shack in the woods | If you don't drink maybe you should try some moon cabbage.lol |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Just chill out, I guess, there's no cure to the disease. |
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Location: The desert | Nyquil. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Chill and relax. Don't get all amped up going through the same baits you've already gone through... |
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| Spend some quality time with the girlfriend/wife. Or if you don't have one, work on getting one. Like others have mentioned find something that will make you relax and take your mind off fishing. Watch a movie or read a book perhaps. |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | Just go down to your local drugstore and get an over the counter sleep aid. Off brands work as well as name brands. "Simply Sleep" works for me. Dirt cheap, you can think about muskie fishing and you will be asleep in less than 20 minutes. |
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Location: NW WI | A nice glass of Knob Creek or Crown Royal usually does the trick for me. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Try counting sheep....and let your buddy throw whatever color top-water he wants! |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Only time I have this problem is the night before a tourney, rest of the time I'm plenty tired enough to sleep..... helps I get to fish 4-7 days a week to. |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | Scotch on the rocks, I do that in everyday life when i can't sleep. |
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Location: Belleville, WI | It helps me to read a bit. Just something to get my focus off of whatever my mind is wrapped up in, be it work, fishing or any of life's day-to-day stress makers. |
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| Read a book--like Time On The Water--until you fall asleep. Or read something difficult. It will work every time. |
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| PP hit it on the head. Nyquil. |
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| steve get to work!!! |
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| My Boss is a SLAVE DRIVER!!!! LOL! |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Ifishskis - 6/14/2010 7:46 PM
A nice glass of Knob Creek or Crown Royal usually does the trick for me.
O hell yeah... |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Ifishskis - 6/14/2010 7:46 PM
A nice glass of Knob Creek or Crown Royal usually does the trick for me.
O hell yeah... |
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Location: Eagan, MN | I read fishing magazines until I feel tired, then I lay in bed and think of how I'm going to put that new knowledge to use on the water.
Edited by Brian Jobe 6/15/2010 2:01 PM
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Location: minocqua, wi. | if you can't sleep the night before going fishing it simply shows that you are not fishing enough.
EDIT:
unless you are on your way to Eagle Lake and Andy Meyer's Lodge :0)
Edited by jonnysled 6/15/2010 2:44 PM
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Cast - 6/15/2010 9:21 AM
Read a book--like Time On The Water--until you fall asleep. Or read something difficult. It will work every time.
That don't work for me. If I read anything to do with fishing or hunting it just gets me more amped up. I have the same issue of not falling asleep the first night at the cabin. Best thing I have found is just go fishing that night until I get tired. Drag myself to bed, or truck, and sleep like a baby until the alarm is going off a few hours later. |
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Location: WI | If I'm fishing a lot and having lots of action I get the same way. I just lay there all excited and can't sleep. Sometimes I fiddle around with some of my favorite baits so hopefully I have a fishing dream. |
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| If you live alone...no roommate or wife and no kids....crank up the tunes and play Tetris. Don't knock Tetris. Trust me...once your eyes start to dry out when you're at 250+ plus lines on that game with the tunes goin'....it'll knock you out in a hurry.
If you do have roommate/wife/kids: Add Headphones to the above prescription.
Sometimes...simplicity rules. |
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| Nothing will force you to sleep without adverse affects. My advice is not to waste that time laying there thinking about the trip and to just get the trip started. Pack up and leave after you get out of work, or whatever. If you start getting tired pull off and get in a power nap, or two. Then get back to it. The net result of being tired will be the same, but you’ll be a lot closer to putting all those ruminative thoughts to work, versus climbing into the truck later in the morning, or when you are even more tired from not being able to sleep. Just as long as you pull off as soon as you feel tired in a truck stop you’ll probably feel better and put more time on the water, and hopefully more fish in the boat. If you can, switch drivers and nap in the passenger’s seat, just don’t pull a hero routine and think you can drive through it.
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| I used to have that problem bad. A girl has mellowed me out but before her I'd try to get off a little early the day of so I'd have time to fish a few hours that night. It takes the edge off majorly. If you know the lake I'll go out even if it's well after dark for a couple hours. Casting, marking structure on electronics, feeling the fresh air and hearing the lapping water will all help you sleep. Stay out till you can feel your eyes getting heavy and head in. I've gotten some really nice fish doing that when in the past I woulda been laying awake all night. If you can't though for some reason try a melitonin or nyquil. I don't drink either and on rare occasions I'll use one of those when I gotta get sleep. |
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Location: Oregon | Age will cure it...............give it time, you will eventually calm down and sleep.
RM |
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Location: Roscoe IL | SEX! You will be asleep in no time once you get to the top of mount awesome! |
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| ToothyCritter - 6/16/2010 7:41 AM
SEX! You will be asleep in no time once you get to the top of mount awesome!
Depends on who the mate is. There are some that will keep you up all night, God bless them. |
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