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| Ok so now that we've all (hopefully anyway) figured out that fishing for muskies makes you a muskie fisherman, and that trying to measure yourself as an angler compared to someone else makes about as much sense as drunk dialing ex girlfriends at 3:00 am...
Here's an interesting question:
Fishing, in general... How may days (day being 8 hours) of your life do you suppose you have spent fishing? Doesn't matter where or what for, how many days?
I'd guess I'm over 1,200 days. Not that I'd have done anything better with that time if I wasn't fishing, but that's like 5 years of full time hours there. Imagine if I'd spent all that time working. Scary...
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Location: deep in the slop | A very good question. Growing up in Michigan's UP yielded countless opportunities both with friends and family. I would say that I am around 1.5 years (a very rough estimate). Definitely a good question. I have never looked at it in that light. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Rough guess around 1000 days. The last 5 years though have been on avg for me 100+ days a year, guess I'm making up for my lost youth. I'm at 70 days so far for the year over half thats been after muskies. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Work gets in the way of me squandering my entire existence away. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Wow, do I really want to know?
Including ice fishing I would say a good year is around 75 eight hour days, slow years being 45 days. I'm 38 now so doing the math it's a ton.......lately I've been having a lot of good years as my son just turned 7 and can tag along.
Little story when I was in kindegarten my old man worked shifts, so with a rotating schedule his days off wouldn't always land on the weekend. Mom would drop me off at school and dad picking me up minutes later for many doctor appointments when the fish where biting, mainly icefishing. I was 3 extra tip ups.
I can still remember the call from school on why I was absent so often, Mom had no idea, Dad burying his face deeper in the newspaper as he was getting the riot act. The days off didn't stop, just tailored back a bit.
Caught my first Musky at eleven, a 37 1/2" in the eight. My younger bother caught his first the same year, a 35 incher and I was bound and determined not to let him out do me as I was the "bigger" outdoorsman.
I don't even want to think about hunting days...........
Edited by Hodag Hunter 9/29/2008 4:24 PM
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Location: Twin Cities | Not enough....never enough.
Thinking back to when I was a kid, it's a lot. Way over 1000, it's all I used to do in the summer. |
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| esoxaddict - 9/29/2008 3:26 PM
Here's an interesting question:
How may days (day being 8 hours) of your life do you suppose you have spent fishing? Doesn't matter where or what for, how many days?
So days that I'm on the water for 16 hrs counts as 2 days??? LOL
Edited by IAJustin 9/29/2008 4:54 PM
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Location: Wheeling, IL. | esoxaddict - 9/29/2008 3:26 PM
and that trying to measure yourself as an angler compared to someone else makes about as much sense as drunk dialing ex girlfriends at 3:00 am...
Jeff
How often have you done this?
Bring their numbers to PI so we can help you!
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Location: Elgin, IL | Agreed, never enough. Especially in this economy, I'm working harder and making less. No time to fish.
I think that's going to change in October though....... |
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lets see im 25 and ive been fishing since i was 3.....hmmmmm this is a tuffy i have no clue. i know ive been fishing along time and it hurts my brain to even try and come up with a number. not to mention all those years ice fishing on mille lacs, we would have rattle reels in at all times and those trips would last a week sometimes more.
168 hours in 1 week....168 divided by 8 = 21
so in a week of ice fishing where im fishing 24 hrs a day thats "21 days" cuz 8 hrs. counts as "1 day" i did that every year for many many years probably 8-10 years. maybe subtract a couple hours for running to garrison or on the sled out to the mud flats. uggggg my brain hurts.........
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Location: Rhinelander. | Good question and I'd really have to think about it. I'm married 35 years now and I asked my wife for her very accurate calculation on the subject. You know wives are never wrong!!!! She said only this, Way the hell too many!!!!!!!!
I guess her thinking on it is different then mine.
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Ok here goes. No one is answering in actual hours @ 8 hours per day so I am going to tell you that I have come up with 21,000 hours fishing since I met the lady that is now my wife. Met her in '73 so that is 35 years at 75 days a year @ 8 hours per day. This does not include my childhood and adult days before I met my wife..........YIKES I have spent a lot of time on the water. You would think I would be better at this by now wouldn't you? No dang wonder my arms and shoulders are always so sore. How many casts would that be anyway? Someone please figure out a formula for me. |
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| Based on 2 casts a minute, roughly 2,520,000 casts. Or under the cliche` of "fish of 10,000 casts", 252 muskies. Is that right????
Would be curious to see how close that number is to accurate (I would guess that it is off quite a ways...for some anyways). We need a new slogan! |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | sworrall - 9/29/2008 4:21 PM
Work gets in the way of me squandering my entire existence away.
I have to say that's right on the money! |
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