Any 3rd shft workers 1st shift fishermen out there?

[nitroceciljr]

Just wondering how many other people are out there like me? I work all night 3rd shift and skip out on sleep, skip out on eating "sometimes", stay up for 36hrs+ just to get a full day of fishing in... Then go home sleep for 1 or 2 hours and off to work again... I pay the price the hard way but all for the love of fishing.... Am I the only one

I normally do this 1 or 2 times a week...
And almost every Friday night like tonight or to some this morning ... I stay up all day saturday to try and get some more fishing in

[yak_n_mike]

3rd shift is great for fishing, mushroom hunting, goofing off, but not so good for sleep. I've been doing it for most of the last 30 yrs and I love it.

[nitroceciljr]

Ha ha I am just waiting for the day that I am in my kayak on the lake and I fall asleep in my kayak.... Then I wake up with a huge SPLASH!!!

[jenningsm21]

Here here, i also work 3rd shift 7pm - 7am , and i can attest to not sleeping and going fishing in the morning. Oh and i have floated into a nice cove, anchored and took a afternoon nap fortunately haven't taken a splash bath . Also i am on call most weekends from Sat. morning till Mon. mornings; and have even been on the water and have gotten paged makes for a short fishing trip when you have to report within 1 hour That SUCKS!!!!!

[nitroceciljr]

Here here, i also work 3rd shift 7pm - 7am , and i can attest to not sleeping and going fishing in the morning. Oh and i have floated into a nice cove, anchored and took a afternoon nap fortunately haven't taken a splash bath . Also i am on call most weekends from Sat. morning till Mon. mornings; and have even been on the water and have gotten paged makes for a short fishing trip when you have to report within 1 hour That SUCKS!!!!!

Yes, that would SUCK!

I am a Manager for Freight Handling Company and I get called at home ALL THE TIME!!!! But 99% of the time I can figure out the problem from home or where ever I happen to be. I just get so sick of being bothered with work all the time!

I bet you stay close to the truck when you’re on call?

[w2n]

I kinda do it that way as well...
I usually get called for 1 of 2 trains here in Cleveland Ohio about 5am (to be on the train and ready to roll by 7am). About 8(ish) hours later I'm getting to the hotel in Findlay Ohio. If my crew was the first to get there from Cleveland, then about 10 hours later we're getting called to take a train back to Cleveland about about 2 or 3 AM. That particular train usually only takes about 5 or 6 hours to get back home, so if I got some decent sleep at the hotel, and it works out that I can go, I can hit the water for a few hours when I get in. Now if my crew is the second crew to get there, we go to the hotel for about 24 hours and then get called for a train that leaves for Cleveland at about 6 or 7PM and that one usually takes at least 10 hours to get back to Cleveland and put away in the yard. So with that one, I have been getting home and taking couple hour cat nap and then getting on with trying to get to the water. So I guess it's more like a "1st shift to 3rd shift to fishing" and a "2nd shift to 3rd shift to fishing" sort of thing now that I sit down and type it all out.

[lconn4]

I used to burn the candle on all three ends. Once woke up at hotel 5 hours after the start time of big kayak fishing tournament after not sleeping the day before...I've fallen asleep at the paddle many times. Don't think the brain will let you fall out of kayak or it would have happened to me by now...just that jolt of shock that scares you half to death when you wake up in kayak. The night before a planned fishing trip I would hardly ever get to sleep...doing all the things you do preparing. Around 1 or 2 a.m. I realize I wouldn't get to sleep or would never wake up if I tried so if I didn't go right then and try to catch a few hours rest at the launch I'd never make it there. If I was meeting someone there they'd wake me up. If I were there alone, around 10 o'clock in the morning the sun would beging to suffocate me and work just like an alarm. Many times I've gotten out of kayak and taken a nap. Finally realized that its best to camp out rather than risk doing the one eyed drives to or from anywhere when I get sleepy now. I'm a night owl by nature and 3 a.m. is when I start thinking about getting some rest.

[MidTNKayakAngler]

I work all kinds of crazy shifts so I fish when I can. Wether it's after work, or before work no matter what shift 0700-1500, 1500-2300, 2300-0700, 1100-2300, or 2300-1100. Schedule can change from week to week, and might work 3 different shifts in one week, I just never know what's going to happen. Just fish when I can.

[Cobra]

I personally gave up work for fishing , well not exactly until I find another job I will fish all I can, and I as well have worked about 18 of the last 25 years on 3rd shift and sacraficed my sleep, family, and my personnal hobbies to work those crazy hours, I wish NOT to go back to 3rd or 2nd shift at my next job.

[jason_h1]

Me too. Been trying to squeeze life (and fishing) between shifts since 1998. My schedule is a 12+ hour shift days/nights. Gotta say I like it though because I get a lot of days off. People always ask if I ever get used to the schedule and I just tell them I think you just get used to doing stuff half asleep...