If you do anything long enough, you’re going to get burned out. It can happen with work, school or even—dare I say it—bass fishing. It took me a long time to catch onto this, to be quite honest. I don’t do anything halfway, so when I discovered fishing as a young boy, I was obsessed. I quit all other sports and pursued this career for the better part of a decade.
But, I’m guilty of pushing it too far; I think many of us are. We love this sport so darn much that we just don’t know when to stop. It consumes every inch of us, at almost a cellular level. It becomes part of our DNA.
If we’re not careful, however, it will burn us out. I see it happen in both the fishing industry and with a lot of the weekend anglers on social media. An angler will land a dream job, win a few derbies or nab a few partnerships and they’re on top of the world. They’re gung-ho and unstoppable.
