Getting back into the swing of things

[TF_gloves007uk]

Well after a long spell out of fishing due to
work commitments and just not having much free time
on my hands its time to get back out there and get fishing again
150 hooklegths tied rigs all sorted and all my kit dusted down and ready to roll out the door on Sunday to the canal for the day just to ease back into it

just wondered if many of you have had breaks from fishing and was it easy to pick up where you left off?

also how many of you pack up kit for the winter months and stay indoors till the cold weather clears off getting ready for the spring ?

I know at i used to be only a summer angler some years back

oh and i need to update my blog so need to get out and about

[TF_NW Cut Angler]

I have like you due to work commitments. Pleasuring / practice like I had never been away. Match wise fished like a Ronald (nothing new) for a few matches.

[TF_Decaff]

I’m currently experiencing the longest break I’ve ever had away from fishing.Due to my sons football commitments I’m running him around the country all w/end & the wifes no help as she is having to take my daughter to netball!
I reckon I might get a couple of days over Xmas but I bet the weather puts paid to that though.
I have more hooks & rigs tied up than I’ll ever use,my kit is gleaming & my goretex washed & re-proofed.What else can I do?
Oh the joys of sporty kids.lol.

[TF_gloves007uk]

102 veiws and only 2 posts back
right boring lot most of you are these days ~think
so none ones had a break and everyone fishes through the cold winter months
~think ~think ~think ~think ~think

[TF_fourcanals]

yes gloves I drifted with sons football work and the demise of the trent.I on average went to a carp puddle 3 -4 times in a season and thought I had kept in touch with catching the modern way I got talked into joining a local pub comp.how wrong i was I got battered big style ,young lads fishing a variety of floating poles bagging wags pellet on pole you name it and was getting rogered good style. i am happy now to say that 2 seasons on and and have turned it around and am confident when i now put in that i have direction as to what i am targetting. It has been an expensive learning curve updating the tackle , but I have had /have no other interests sports wise (coming from Sheffield forget football} so plunging back into fishing the commercials localy has now re inspired me

[TF_gloves007uk]

I have only been out the game for 6 months and it seems like a few years and as i said looking forward to sundays outing
i thought about packing it in completly selling my kit and calling it a day funny thing is the wife told me to hold onto my kit and just pick up where i left off and she hates fishing
so elite 77 dusted off ready to catch some fish

[TF_NW Cut Angler]

I think a lot depends on the venues you frequent. Commercial fishing changes more rapidly IMO and particularly if you are a club angler travelling to different venues for one off matches.

[Anonymous]

I,ve had a few breaks over the last 30 years of match fishing. I just get fed up with the same old things and just cannot be bothered. The longest i,ve been away from the sport was about 2 years. When i returned. I felt like i was having to think everything though but i was able to compete at almost the highest level (White Acres festivals). Im quite a natural angler and pick things up very quickly with out having to think to much. So things seemed a bit strange to me for a while when i returned. Best way to describe it is that i was fishing with my head instead of my heart. It took me a few months to get fully back in to just doing things without having to think to much. Not that i was not catching or winning matches. The times when i,ve had a break for 6 months or so. I,ve just picked up from where i left off. Nothing much will have changed except the temps since the last time you where out. So, just think back to last winter and how you caught. I guess it will also depend on if you have missed the sport and if you where enjoying the sport before you stopped. It will also depend on if your match fishing or pleasure fishing.

[TF_gloves007uk]

@TrueBlue wrote:

I,ve had a few breaks over the last 30 years of match fishing. I just get fed up with the same old things and just cannot be bothered. The longest i,ve been away from the sport was about 2 years. When i returned. I felt like i was having to think everything though but i was able to compete at almost the highest level (White Acres festivals). Im quite a natural angler and pick things up very quickly with out having to think to much. So things seemed a bit strange to me for a while when i returned. Best way to describe it is that i was fishing with my head instead of my heart. It took me a few months to get fully back in to just doing things without having to think to much. Not that i was not catching or winning matches. The times when i,ve had a break for 6 months or so. I,ve just picked up from where i left off. Nothing much will have changed except the temps since the last time you where out. So, just think back to last winter and how you caught. I guess it will also depend on if you have missed the sport and if you where enjoying the sport before you stopped. It will also depend on if your match fishing or pleasure fishing.

Cheers mate for the advice
should of said been out the game for nearly a year last winter was spent smashing the shite out of the taliban in sagin so when i came back i was all up for fishing got my new pole and all that fished a few fisho matches and came 4th in the lakeveiw one missing out by 8lb then did sod all in my last 2 so to a certain point lost interest in matches then just didnt have the time and now found the get up and go again for the rest of the year and the new year

so watch my blog lol

[mayo]

see you at the fur and feather then Chris

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