Fisherman's elbow?

[lunkertaker]

I have done a lot of both salt water fishing and freshwater fishing this year.

Just not as much as I wanted to due to a persistent pain in my left elbow.

Came on in July, and now I have trouble picking things up with pain, and think that I have tendon-itus in my left elbow. I have skipped a few outings due to this and expended myself on others in the love of fishing.

I know that I need to rest the elbow, but has anyone else had this trouble and survived without the rest or is the rest...man I don't want to stop fishing, required? Winter is close and a reprieve, but...I think I have Fisherman's elbow

What have your experienced?