Sleeping In Vs. HUNTING/FISHING

[HogHunter34]

I usually sleep in because I hunted all night

Yep it happens to the best of us. Like someone else mentioned sometimes the conditions will play into my decision. Like if it’s windy

[SM69]

I make myself get up anyway and usually I’m glad I did once I’m on the stand and watch the darkness slowly disappear and birds start to chirp. There’s something special about listening to the world wake up from the view of a bow stand.

Amen! Nothing quite like a gorgeous sunrise listening to the world come alive.


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[hopedale]

If I'm going by myself, yea, I find it easier to just say I'll go later. When I am going with someone, its easier to get up.

[okrattler]

Hell yeah. Screw getting up in the morning. I don't ever miss work. By the time Friday rolls around I'm a tired son of a gun. Matter of fact I'm about to take me a nap until 5:00 this afternoon. Huntin ain't that important. I ain't getting paid good enough to do it.

[LivinADream]

I figure if I can get up in the morning to go do something I don't care for, I can dang sure get up to go do what I love.

Watching the world wake up is one of my favorite things.

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[Ætheling]

Where I hunt it can get difficult sometimes. After a couple or more months of sitting every weekend morning and some weekdays it can get very difficult to wake up early for another morning of what statistically is gonna be a bust. Basically when work days becomes your sleeping in lol.


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[Bucknaked]

Heck no! Gotta get out there every chance I get!
Might be my last one. Plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead

Amen! If it’s a clear morning I love to see God’s blessing of his sun rise- and his sun set

[tpack]

I rarely hunt in the mornings anymore except for opening day or the 2-3 ducks hunts I go on every year. My love for sleep is stronger than my hate for the critters.


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I used to drive and pull my boat to the lake in the dark many a day when I was younger and enjoyed fishing more than I do today. I still get excited enough about deer hunting to get up @ 4 a.m. to head out. I`m just not as mad at them as I was when I was younger.

[Mexico]

If I'm in a long stretch of hunting down south I'll usually take a morning or evening off just to relax and recoup. Sitting for 6 to 8 days straight can get monotonous.

[tdwinklr]

I make myself get up anyway and usually I’m glad I did once I’m on the stand and watch the darkness slowly disappear and birds start to chirp. There’s something special about listening to the world wake up from the view of a bow stand.

this, unless there's heavy rain.

[Txtourist]

I love it once I’m out there, but some windy/ rainy mornings can be a struggle.
I had to pull cameras at one point as I was not getting anything on food pots in the morning. Really made it too easy to not go

[camoclad]

If I'm in a long stretch of hunting down south I'll usually take a morning or evening off just to relax and recoup. Sitting for 6 to 8 days straight can get monotonous.

Sitting still for long hours day after day is a practiced superpower most people can't even begin to know about. I think that superpower alone could save you in an apocalyptic situation. Everyone else be running around like crazy burning energy and fighting. Lol

[Muddy Bud]

I find myself sleeping in more now that I’m older. If I sleep in and skip a morning hunt, I just get in the blind earlier that evening.

[lanceodom]

I sleep in if I have a reason. Meaning if I get to the ranch late, or have been hunting for a week straight, then I’ll sleep in.

[RifleBowPistol]

Yes, many times, I have intended to get up early and go hunting. Then decided, nope, I am going to sleep longer. For most of my life, I had to get up early and get to work, then came home tired. Then the days I took off of work and went hunting. My mind, tells me, I don't have to get up early, I can sleep in, and finally get some rest. I often will do so. This will happen more often when I am hunting an area, where I know the chances of seeing something I want to shoot are low.

In places where I have never hunted, or know there is a decent chance that something I want to shoot, will be in the area, I am planning to hunt. Then I will usually get up much earlier. Also, I have found, when I either sleep in my truck or a tent, near where I am going to hunt. I am much more likely to get up, when I planned to.

There have been very few times I have ever planned to get up early to go fishing, and fewer times, I actually got up early to go fishing. I have done so. About the only time I will be on the water, when the sun is coming up, is when I am sleeping right next to the water, where I am going to be fishing. If I have to drive two hours to a boat dock, then launch the boat and run the boat for an hour or longer to get where I want to fish. You won't find me on the water as the sun comes up. I like fishing or used to like it a lot, but I found a long time ago. That if you don't fish given areas often, and learn why the fish move from one area to another and why they are in different depth water at different times. Your chances of catching fish are low. When I know my chances of catching fish are low, I am not going to put much effort into the whole deal. I am just going to relax as much as possible and go through the motions of fishing. If I catch fish, while doing so, I will be happier.

When I was younger, we had a boat in the family, I was not married, lived right next to the water on the coast. I could fish a lot more often, I knew where to go, at different times. Now, I am lucky to fish once a year. I keep finding, that only going once a year, I have no idea where to find fish. I used to get irritated, only going once a year and not catching much. But I have have to keep reminding myself, what reality is, and to look at things differently. If I get all gung ho and get serious about going fishing. Then my wife, has her long list of non fishing stuff she wants to put in the truck, prepare food or whatever that eats up quite a bit of time. Then my daughter is worse than me about getting up early. Getting her up, before 11:00 AM, when she did not have to be in school. Was going to be an unpleasant first half of the day, with three irritated people and a lot of yelling. Now she is out on her own, I could start thinking of going back to getting up much earlier to go fish. Which I have tried a few times. But every time, my wife, has to pack up the truck like we are going on a month long trip. I have to step back calm down and just classify the trip as a trip to the coast. Don't get in any hurry, don't plan on catching any fish. We are going to go to the coast and be on or near the water, then I will have fishing tackle with me.

Back when we did a lot of fishing when we were younger, long before I ever got married or ever thought of doing something along those lines. We would at times hit the water around sun up, and fish most of the day. Most of the fishing we did, was mid day, later afternoon, or at night. At one point, we would hit the water in the boat, every afternoon, after we got off work. Then we had a loop we would make, and would catch a decent number of good sized fish, then back to the dock and home. Then at other times, we fished multiple piers at night. Those where the times where we really caught a lot of fish. There was a pier we used to fish at night, where we would catch around 100 trout a night. We would usually come home with around 12 trout. Back then the minimum was 14", we would only keep 16" and longer, most of the time, 18" and longer. If we were not catching many over 18" we would start keeping a few 16" trout. I don't think we ever brought home more than 15 trout, between the two of us. I had a lure, that had been hit so many times, it had two grooves down the top of lure, from the trout's two fangs.

I wished we would have had something like a Go Pro back in those days. It was a blast, that one lure we would have upwards of 7 trout at a time chasing it. Often the ones in the rear would jump over the others to get it. We had some crazy hits on that lure. We always loved it when some large trout would be hanging out deep, and we did not know it was down there, then as we drug the lure over it. It would shoot up like a rocket and hit the lure. Sending the lure flying and the trout would launch out of the water. Most of the time they would be near the surface chasing it.

Then we fished Bob Hall and Horace Caldwell piers at night for large reds and shark. We were mainly after shark.
That was what we did, when I lived on the coast, so getting up at 4:00 AM only happened a few times in my life. One summer I went to a fishing camp, over near the bluff area, for a week. There we had to get up at something like 4:30 AM, every morning. We did not catch much, on those trips. We hit the boat hole multiple mornings. and around CCNAS. We caught a lot more fish, back at the house during the middle of the day, which was on one of he canals just over on the other side of the intercoastal. We would catch a lot of rat reds right behind the house, ever day. The guys who took us out fishing, were supposed to be locals who knew where the fish were, they took us out in their boats. There were a couple mornings on at least one boat, they would get into some fish. But every time we went out, the boat I was on, we did not catch much. Some time after we would get back to the house, every day, I would go down to the canal and start catching rat reds. I caught a whole lot more fish there, than on those early morning trips out on the water. Not sure if the guys that took us out, did not want to take us to their favorite spots, afraid we might tell our father's where we went and go back or what the deal was. We hardly caught anything, in five days of hitting the water before the sun came up. This was back probably 1983.