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Sorry to read about your ice fishing derailment. First and foremost I hope you can completely recover from your setback and find the vigor to meet next season head on. You can't turn the clock back, but you can sure wind it up again. Best of luck on the coming months. WS
Hello fellow hardwater enthusiasts. I read your posts this season with some envy and frustration, although I am glad that you guys are persuing the sport with such vigor as to keep me entertained with your posts. Some notable examples of dedicated fishermen that make posts that I truly enjoy reading include Adironzach and hardwaterhonkey, among others.I only spent 4 days ice fishing this season, and none since January 9. A number of issues have derailed my season, and I will not be stepping foot an any ice for the remainder of this season. Please see below for the enumerated reasons for the sad derailment of my ice season. I will never take the opportunity to enjoy this sport for granted again, and in December 2022 I will be more motivated to go ice fishing than I have been in 20 years. Thank you in advance for your continued posts that make me envious and dreamy, and your words of encouragement that will spur me on to get back at this with great motivation in approximately 10 months.1.) I had COVID 19 for 3 weeks in October, and spent 2 days admitted to the hospital. I was not on a ventilator. I had pretty severe pneumonia for 1 month after being cleared to return to work on November 2. That cleared up before ice season arrived, but on my limited number of days on the ice, I found that even the 30 something degree temps. bothered me and I was not comfortable being outside in this for more than 1 hour.2.) The guys I used to fish a lot with don't care that much about going anymore. I do go with my teenage kids a lot until this season, but they are seniors in high school and have a ton of stuff going on every weekend now - lengthy homework assignments, college applications and college tours that I bring them to, etc. Those thoinhs makeit hard to justify spending entire weekends on the ice. 3.) I may have reached some level of saturation with my experiences catching fish through the ice. I have come to expect catching certain sized fish and certain quantities of fish from my go-to places now, and if that does not happen then I unfortunately let it negatively affect my satisfaction with the activity. I need to remind myself that it is called " fishing " and not " catching " and that I am not a personal failure when the fishing is less than I have come to epect.Thank you all for reading. If I need my ass kicked instead of getting words of encouragement, please don't hesitate to do that. I want honesty from all of you. Good luck for the remainder of this ice season
"Get busy living...or get busy dying...."
If you make it out just 1 more time this season. Join us for some lake trout fishing on Lake George.We've got some catching up to do. You've got to see the kid at work jigging these days. The fishing is over. He's just catching at this point.Your torch has been passed to yet another generation, but neither of us are dead yet.
This ☝️ After two spinal surgeries and then the top part of my right lung removed I keep plugging along. Enough about me now get out there and enjoy life
Damn bro talk about a blast from the past. Lemme know Ill bring my daughter up.
Thanks for the kind words! Until that ice is gone tho, never say never about not making it out. Some of my favorite times to fish are those warm end of season days where youre on good ice but fishing in a tshirt. Theyre the best, and well deserved after battling the conditions through the frigid winter. I drove home via the taconic the other day (26th) and saw people out on a few bodies of water so even your southern lakes still are holding on! If you can, i think youd be appreciative of even a few hours on the ice feeling that tug again. I wish i had some pictures and stories to help keep you entertained but the past two weeks have been tough for me. Went from the two hottest weekends ive had this season to the two slowest. Just the name of the game i guess. Next weekend will be a different story tho, im already dreaming of pinning that first hookset.
Warrior needs to be Shanghaied and dropped off on a frozen body of water in a nice icehouse and left there until he completes the mission of catching something anything 😉
Hey warrior, I do not mean to make light of your misfortunes but pull your pants up, grit your teeth and go. Three christmases ago, I fell off a ladder. When I woke up in Albany med they informed me that I had broken 19 bones including a fractured skull and a puntured lung. 21 days I spent in the hospital. I lost a lot of my hearing. My memory is not great. I still hurt every day from wake-up to lights out. The going was tough and didn't get any easier for a long time. I begged to go ice fishing that spring and with help from a friend as well as my wife, got out on the last possible day before ice out.I still have to grit my teeth to keep going but I have decided to not give up and not quit trying to do the things I like to do. I bought a new bow today even though it hurts like hell to shoot but it's something I love to do. Ya gotta just keep on keepin on, get mad, get up and just do it Best of luck WARRIOR Do not give up!