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Old 03-05-2008 | 01:42 PM
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Default RE: Am I "selling out"?

I agree with Bry and Rybo. You have got to realize that the deer will manage with or without you. Mother nature had a way of taking care of these problems, its not always pretty, but its effective! Just get out there, shoot some deer and enjoy it. You don't want to get burnt out on hunting by turning it from a hobby to a chore. I have never been there with hunting but I have been with trout fishing. I have as much if not more of a passion for trout fishing than archery hunting and I crave big trout. I have gotten to the point where I have become so obsessed with catching certain large trout that I forgot to enjoy myself out there. It wasn't the enjoying time I normally have on the stream, it was a "job". I had one large rainbow, 24"-26" that drove me nuts for the better part of a summer. He stayed in the center of a large deep hole right underneath a overhanging branch. He would not eat any live bait and wouldn't touch flies. I spent probablly 5 nights a week for a month fishing for that single trout trying to figure out what would work for me. I had him follow my lures and he snapped my line twice during that month. Eventually I got to the point where I just didn't enjoy it and I realized how much of a waste that time was as I didn't enjoy it. After that point, I decided to just go out and fish, and since then I have probablly landed more than 100 trout that broke the 24" mark!
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