I equate fishing with solitude and emotional recuperation and not with fighting traffic or crowds, so I generally avoid fishing weekends like the plague.
I'm self employed, so getting away weekdays is usually a matter of simply telling my wife I'll be going fishing and when I'll be back. (But that's not always a slam-dunk, depending on her emotional state, the length of our lawn, and the length of her honey-do list at any given moment ;-) Since there's no free lunch in life, a weekday spent fishing is always a trade-off with the lost income from 6-10 billable hours. How often I fish depends on the status of the treasury and how badly I need/want to get out on the water. During spring and summer, I manage to get away for a day every couple weeks; maybe a day a month during fall and winter. Kent Lufkin
