When you do something long enough, you’ll get burnt out by it eventually. It happens in daily life, and it can also happen in fishing. The more repetitive each activity gets, the more bored you become. This is what bass fishing sometimes does to me. Hopefully, you have not become a casualty of burn out. In my previous fishing life, everything I did was for self-learning and for leisure. I fished for nobody else but myself, and was very obsessed with it. At one point, I also played on team sports (basketball) more than I went fishing, which is hard to believe. By the time I turned 18, I had quit playing sports almost entirely and fishing became my primary focus, taking up all of my time. After college, most friends went off to graduate school to get their Masters Degrees. Jokingly, but mostly seriously, fishing was my graduate study. My goal was for it to turn into a career. While this has led to a secondary career and a lot of opportunities and avenues, I don’t feel like this massive time investment has amounted to anything much now that I am a few years shy of age-40. It pays the bills, but not in the lucrative ways it could for a guy with my off-the-wat