SPRING-oholics Anonymous

Its here. The flowers are blooming and the turkeys are gobbling. The days are getting longer and warmer and the Spring DST has kicked in. You're out of your thermals and skull caps and in to your shorts or your all green camouflage. If your like me, then you weren't to sad to see the cold weather go. You had about all you could of deer season and your ready for Spring turkeys and great fishing.

Looking back is the thought of the worst few months of a Spring crazed outdoorsman's existence......the lull. There is no deer season and no duck season....but the turkeys aren't gobbling and the fish aren't biting. You look ahead and it doesn't seem too far away but believe me, if you are crazy about Spring seasons, then you will need someway to keep yourself busy. 

                                                     

The way I start getting myself into the swing of Spring is to start teasing myself by taking out my turkey vest and playing with calls, checking the line on my rods, and finding the "keeper" items or the ones that need to be tossed out and replaced in my tackle box or turkey vest. This can be exciting and time consuming, which is exactly what a Spring addict like yourself needs right now.....time consumption. 

PACE YOURSELF! Don't go out and buy the next closest thing for one of your replacement items right off the bat just to fill the void of a half full tackle box or a sorry excuse for a turkey vest. Instead, start researching. Unless your old worn out item was your go to thing, then I would suggest finding a new one.....a better one.

This strategy is going to help in several ways:

• You will use time that you would normally be fantasizing with

• You will replace your old or worn items

• You will better your selection

The only bad thing is....this time period won't last long. Before you know it, you'll have an overflowing tackle box and a 50 pound turkey vest on your hands. Everything in front of you is going to have you itching to get out there and do it. Just hold tight and maybe grab a magazine. Stay in tune but don't wear yourself out. I've found that there are online forums where you can ease your pain talking to other outdoor enthusiasts like yourself. 

One day.....all of a sudden....your going to see a flower bloomed in your yard, or a bird singing outside your window. The only problem is that the extended length of the days doesn't match the cold, windy, and sometimes dreary weather. Its almost as if Spring is here.....but its not. Now is the time to start getting active. Strap on your turkey vest, sit up against an oak tree, and pattern your turkey gun. Take the cover off the bass boat and go get a feel for how shes running. Practice scratching on your favorite slate or just making some blind casts on your old bait caster. No doubt you'll be prepared for your first adventure of the spring. 

You don't have to take my word for it.....but for sometime now, I've been suffering from the pre-spring jitters. I've managed to get through the days by doing exactly what you see here. From it, I have more confidence in my gear, I have stayed in tune and cooked up more tricks for this season, and mostly...I haven't gone completely insane waiting on it to get here. If you're crazy about it like me, you might not get as much success out of the program....but it'll help.