Long vs Short sessions

[Zerkalo]

I love the summer daze feeling I get after an all day summer session. Sunstroke, dehydration... I hope not, I take necessary precautions. What I don't do often though is fish two full days in a row, I wish I did though as my mate had 5 Crucians to 4lb 4oz from the same peg I fished a day earlier this weekend. Not saying I would have caught them, but that's spectacular for the venue. If I had a bivvy and stuff like that I'd love to do a 3 day thing though.

 

[BarryS]

I'm usually in it for the long haul, I like to make a day of it and 12 hour sessions in the summer months aren't unusual. I simply can't see the point of getting everything ready, preparing bait etc, just for a couple of hours.

I agree..........but one of the reasons I like flyfishing for carp is its light on gear.. Rod made up and ready in the car..........net/mat light chair some biscuits and everything else in my waistcoat pockets

 

[solwood]

Short 2 to 5 hours mostly - club membership changed how i fished.

Sometimes set a number of fish target and when reached go home early! Once within 30 mins !

 

[Jimpanzee]

80 percent of my sessions are after work in the evenings. In the summer months this allows me to get in a 3-4 hour session on a weekly basis. If I was single and had more time on my hands, no doubt I would fish at the weekends too, but needs must when you have a young family. My weekend is usually taken up with chores, taxing the kids to clubs or parties or spent together as a family. I hope some of that will ease up in the next few years and allow more spare time, but I suspect the opposite will be true. I usually average a weekend session about once every 5-6 weeks.

 

[Jimpanzee]

I love the summer daze feeling I get after an all day summer session. Sunstroke, dehydration... I hope not, I take necessary precautions. What I don't do often though is fish two full days in a row, I wish I did though as my mate had 5 Crucians to 4lb 4oz from the same peg I fished a day earlier this weekend. Not saying I would have caught them, but that's spectacular for the venue. If I had a bivvy and stuff like that I'd love to do a 3 day thing though.

That is one thing I’m unlikely to ever do - fish overnight. I hate camping and I also love my bed too much

 

[Chervil]

Must admit, I thought my short sessions, 5-6 hours, would be the exception, but it seems they are fairly normal. Every day's a school day. Of course when I go on my two week fishing holidays, most days are dawn to dusk.

 

[solwood]

For me fishing for sessions of less than 8 hours isn't worth the time and effort of prepping tackle, bait, making butties and flask and then travelling ... and that's mid-winter, more 10+ hours in summer.,..

Besides which most short sessions people do are 0600-1100 or 1600-2100 - which means they are not at the waters' side at the most productive 1100-1600 times... early morning and evening times are. to me anyway, an urban myth .... but so long as it keeps the waters quiet for me then ... FANTASTIC!!!

Evening and mornings on the venues i fish are the best

Rarely fish between 10 and 5

In my case littleprep needed

Rods are always made up, no bait to make upas have peljetss corn meat and groundbait