Fall run already ran part No. 2/ What makes you keep doing this?

[jimmy z]

I love being out there, I just love it. I love the sound, the smell, the serenity of the ocean, and the pounding of the surf. I stay out there as long as I can, because the winter is long and cold.
But once I put the rods up for the season , that's it. And that is when I see the seal heads bobbing in the water,.
I see it as enjoyment, if one thinks they got it too bad, lol, find a twelve step meeting. lol again. It's what we do, that's the way I see it.

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

as others have said it is the love of the outdoors that keep me going. i grow up in the early 60's fishing with my father on a boat we fished year round when our boat was put up for the winter we continued to fish on party boats for cod and whiting. then spring for mackeral . if i still lived near the water i am sure i would continue to do the same even if the results were negative.now adays i ski when i hang up the fishing gear so i am still out in the weather year round

[vanstaal]

An Angler's Prayer

I pray that I may fish until my dying day,

and, when it comes to my last cast;

I then most humbly pray,

when in the Lord's great landing net

and peacefully asleep;

that in His mercy I be judged

big enough to keep.