What are your other hobbies?

[bassinfool]

Alright everyone, just wanting to have a fun little discussion about what everyone here does for a hobby other than making baits and fishing.  Me personally, I have played paintball since I was 11 years old and have traveled a good portion of the country to compete in tournaments.  If you've never given it a try it is some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on!  Here are a few pictures from throughout this past season of playing in the Minor League Paintball Series which is played in the southeast.

[Bucko]

Cool pics!   My other hobbies include hunting and gaming.   I'm a big fan of world of warcraft and league of legends for the computer.  I also play some ps4 too.   I'm 32 but still a kid at heart.

[MO QWACK]

I enjoy many things... Gardens, flowers, metal working, anything archery related I LOVE to shoot bows, but ducks and bucks get most if the free time,  I also train duck dogs and basic obedience. 

[jl3140]

Those are some pretty cool hobbies. Outside of fishing/tackle building, I enjoy hunting, rifle and archery, disc golf, gardening (I especially like growing strawberries and raspberries), and computer programming which is more or less what I'm going to school for.

Mo: That's a nice lookin' buck. I was hoping to archery deer hunt this fall, but I don't have a place to store the meat from a deer but next year I'll hopefully have an apartment so more room for a freezer.

Josh

[Botanophilia]

I breed tropical fish, play guitar, and also play games (Diablo 3 and Skyrim recently).  I'm a plant geek for a living, horticulture takes up most of my time.

[ctom]

I garden. Love my raspberry and strawberry beds, but love my tomatoes every summer too. I grow Shitaki mushrooms and hope to start some oyster mushrooms next spring along with another batch of logs of Shitakis.

I fish, naturally. I hunt deer each fall but with my lungs starting to really slow me down I may have to pass on that now. I hunt with a black powder rifle or a .50 cal black powder pistol, whichever I feel like lugging up the hill I hunt on. With our cabin only 10 miles from Lake Superior I spend as much time as I can casting from the breakwater in the ore harbor in Two Harbors, MN. On the breakwater its all about peace, not the fish. The fishing is an excuse for me to spend so much time where lake offers so much peace.

[Denny Welch]

Fishing has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I shot a deer once  and didn't much like the experience. I've hunted ducks, but my shotgun was stolen and I never replaced it.  In my almost – hippy days I lived in a cave on Crete for 10 days and I traveled through Europe on a motorcycle for four months.  Selling my bike was a condition of marriage.  I feel like I have done a lot of things in my 68 years and most of them have had something to do with fishing. I have filled ice chests with trout, catfish, salmon, steelhead, and many other species.  About 25 years ago I got very involved with flyfishing and that led to spending about eight years on the board of directors (2 as president) of Granite Bay Flycasters (250) members.  After accumulating over twenty high-end fly rods, five quality fly tying vises, many, many, many thousands of dollars in flyfishing and fly tying stuff, I bought a bass boat (Triton 195 with a 200 horse screamin' ETEC on the back).  That, of course, led to pouring baits and the rest is history.

Sometimes we are identified by what we do. For me, it's all about fishing. After all, it really is "all about the tug".  Ain't got time for anything else.

[2XL]

I have done lots of things hobby wise through the years. Stamps, coins and was big into hunting for arrowheads in my younger days. I logged a TON of hours looking for them and found some pretty cool stuff dating from the time of the Mastodon to the European contact time period. But life changes and so do interests, or more, time to pursue interests. I now collect antique bottles , specifically local beer and soda bottles. I'm from a small town in WI and bottles I don't have are getting pretty hard to come by but I still enjoy the hunt. I also spend a lot of time volunteering when I can. Mostly for the county parks department helping do prairie burns in the spring. I help with their Wood duck/Mallard house clean out and inventory come winter. The last year or so I have helped them with a cabin restoration project. The cabin was built in the 1840s50s and is about 95% complete. It has been a lot of fun learning how these things were built back in the day and got a fair bit of hands on experience hewing logs with an adze. Let me tell you, those folks who built those cabins back then were tough as nails. I also volunteer helping out on a township prairie restoration park down the road from me. The goal is to restore 53 acres to the way it was in the mid 1800s. It's all volunteer driven and I was on the park board for about a year or so before work became an issue for me. It's been 5 years now and the park is awesome and I help when I can. I also do volunteer work at my church when I can. Through it all, hunting and fishing have been on my things to do list. I don't hunt much anymore as most of those I hunted with have passed on or gave it up due to age but the urge to fish still burns strong in me as does making my own jigs and soon to be plastics and whatnot.

Interesting, I had a couple cousins who did the live in a cave on Crete/tour Europe gig.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

At 36 years young, I work 28 days at a time on Oilfield Boats, then off for 14 days.  I pour a little lead and a little plastic.  I help a few people here and there.  I fish when the 7 Moons Align Perfectly (seems like), but I believe that may soon improve.  I try to spend a little time with my Wife on my weekends off, as she's a busy Professional, also.  I have a Pitbull that takes a little of my time, 'cuz he surely can't do things himself.  We opted out of a Garden this year at our new residence, the sun rarely hits the ground.  I'm a semi-hunter, and a decent shooter in pistol and centerfire rifle.  I try to keep "hobbies" to a minimum so there is time for the few there are, so there's time for Life, and time for a little of absolutely nothing.  I make time to smell the roses...and the coffee.

[Muskygary]

I'm 66 so like most of the guys my hobbies have changed. I just retired this summer and am getting adjusted to spending most of my time on hobbies. I love gardening, I have eighteen  raised beds for vegetables and also five potted blueberry bushes and five raspberry bushes. I need the beds and pots because of the water level in the lower yard. I use to deer hunt, both archery and muzzleloader in southern  Illinois with my son, but we lost the farm we hunted on when the farmer sold out. So no hunting this year. I purchased a new 2015 1600 Lund Fury as a retirement gift with a twenty five horse mercury and currently am getting ready to put locators and trolling motor on it. In addition my wife has a pontoon and I also have a thirty year old aluminum bass boat. The old boat and pontoon sit on our lake and the new boat will be kept on the trailer for fishing other lakes. (No walleye in our lake) Most of my time is spent fly tying and jig tying, pouring lead, powder painting, airbrushing knock off plugs and coming up with new fishing ideas. (Currently tying wire keepers on the new VMC spindrift hooks and then putting them on a short piece of power pro behind spoons on a swivel for trolling)

[Cygarbuff]

"I try to keep "hobbies" to a minimum so there is time for the few there are, so there's time for Life, and time for a little of absolutely nothing.  I make time to smell the roses...and the coffee."

BKJ nailed it. I couldn't agree more with him. That was my mission this year. I realized last winter that I had too many and no time for any of them. So I shaved some down. Right now I've been trying to battle a back condition that has rendered me in constant pain. I'm limited to what I can do now so in my "good" days I enjoy lawn care. My lawn is better than any sod farm you would see in Silverton Oregon. It's alot of work and needs constant maintenance but the end result is awesome. I have Lesco custom blend me my own grass seed each year. I like to sew in new varieties each fall. I research what varieties I want and what percentages of each make it happen. I find deer now come out at night to sleep on my lawn since it's so plush and thick, it must be comfortable for them. It started with one deer then before you knew it another and another, last count we had 5-6 come each night. My daughters love it but it drives my dogs crazy.

Before the back issues started last year I always loved weight training, can't wait to get back into the gym. I hope what I'm going through is reversible. Trying to stay positive. Woodworking I love as it is so much fun, from start to finishing and staining. Also, a good cigar is always something I enjoy, there is never a bad place for one but while fishing or in front of a fire pit can't be beat.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

I TRULY feel for You, CB.  Back pain is horrendous!  Awesome on'na Slumbersome Lawn Critters!

[Cygarbuff]

Thanks BNJ, I wish I could get a dr to feel the way you do, I get no empathy. I've done it all, mri, X-ray, bone scans, nerve scans, cortisone shots, physiatrists, orthopedics, neuorologists, massage, chiropractic, physical therapy, acupuncture, nerve medicine, seizure medication etc... I just want the pain to go away and to get my life back. No Drs take back pain complaints serious. They all think we are junkies looking for pills. I never asked for pills, I asked for the source of the pain and to correct that. Sorry to high jack the thread but it was nice to hear someone who understands what I'm dealing with. Chronic pain is difficult on so many different levels to deal with. I'm 38, too young for this.

[hawgthumper]

Besides fishing, bait making, and fly tying I have 3 other passions. Golf, golf and..oh yeah Golf!

[bassinfool]

I feel you on the back pain brother. I walked on to the Auburn football team as a kicker in Spring of 2010 and while I was at home that summer I broke my L3-L5 in an accident involving a John Deere gator and an unmarked guide wire comin off a telephone pole. Never been in so much pain in my life and it took away a possible opportunity with playing football, I never stepped back onto the field. Now, I work in the emergency department at UAB so my back has a new source of pain: standing up and moving around for 12 hour shifts, moving patients, chest compressions, you name it. My fiancé really likes to garden and grows potted tomato plants each summer since we don't have an area to garden at the moment. Looking to get that all changed next year possibly after we get married October 2015. We used to have a garden at my parents house when I was a kid and I always enjoyed having it, especially growing the watermelons and cantaloupe. I see that like a lot of you guys who aren't retired yet it simply comes down to the free time factor which is just nearly nonexistent for me most of the time. I work three 12 hour shifts a week minimum and after that is finished I am in school still working my way towards CRNA so the study time is immense. Throw the tournament paintball scene in there and that's practice each weekend both days for 2-3 weeks before the actual tournament and then when the tournament comes I usually travel Friday after work or school and I'm gone all weekend getting back late Sunday night. Now that it's over maybe I will find some free time but I doubt it!