More Fishing or Not

There are four of us left at the lodge and we have four days of fishing left before we come home. We fished last night until midnight and caught 20 salmon and then we got up this morning and went Halibut fishing and we caught eight halibut and a big flounder. We came home and processed all of the fish, vacuum packing all of it and putting it in the freezer. By then it was dinner time and I am now sitting in a recliner trying to decide if I am going to go fishing tonight and catch some more salmon or continue to sit in my chair and read between naps, and be in bed by 9:00 pm. Part of the equation is tomorrow is Sunday and church is at 9:30 am and we need to leave here at 9:00 am to make it on time, and I hate falling asleep in church. Typically what we do at night is to fish until 1:00 or 2:00 am so we can catch two limits of fish. The limit is six now so if we fish on both sides of midnight we can catch twelve. We are sitting here discussing various options. We can fish tonight, get to bed by 3:00 am, get five hours of sleep, get up at 8:00 am and sleep in church. Another option is to go to sleep now for five hours, be at the river at 11:00 pm and fish until until 9:00 am and go to church in our waders, and sleep and smell bad. Another one is to go fishing now and listen to a sermon on line while we are fishing and call it good, then come home and go to bed and sleep as long as we want. So the question now is, “what will win, my desire to catch more fish or my weariness?” I will tell you tomorrow.

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