You tell yourself you not going to buy another plug, then log on to Ebay and start bidding on more stuff you "need".

You tell your buddies your done fishing for the year, only to call them back 2 hours later to find out what time to meet up in the AM the next day.

You tell the wife you can't take any time off to go on vacation because you need to save your days for good tides.

You convince yourself you need another backup rod for the 9 you already have marked as "backup".

You stuff 35 plugs in your Aquaskinz bag and fish the same three all night.

You convince yourself that you will eventually use the 30 yellow bombers you bought and it was a good investment.

You see your buddies Saltiga and realize you need one in each size. :smash:

I'm just fine thank you:D Someone said it's denial ,but they're wrong. There's nothing wrong with me. By the way Mike, any blue swirl spooks hangin around?

Thats a good one tattoo how bout it takes u six weeks to Tile a master bath on the water.

I fell for the "there not gonna make bl/purple bombers any more" I still have 4 cases.

I got thousands of lures that don't even make it in the truck nevermind the bag.

The reel blunder is I have bout seventy plugs for the Newelly auction an I have'nt done a thing with em.An i see he's sellin his main setup now to make a few bucks.:smash:

You get some Tattoo swimmers, put them on the net, and then go out for a sandwich.
When you come back, your're sold out and you have a dozen backordered.
Later that day, your best customer calls and wants one - you end up having to sell the one you were planning on using yourself.

My God, I can relate to this.. :wall:

Ebay is evil.

Driving 2 hours to fish 2 hours to drive home two hours.

Looking at realestate that is close to fish.

Spending all day at work on SB.com

When the wife knows everyones screen name by heart and where they are from.


Nope no problem here.

If you have a problem with to many plugs please dial the self help hotline and donate a plug to the needy. It is the sharing season.

Your lawn has has a build up of fours years worth of dead leaves because your fall is spent chasing fish and before you know it your lawn is convered in snow. You plan on cleaning it up in the spring but then once May hits.......

Originally posted by Tattoo
You stuff 35 plugs in your Aquaskinz bag and fish the same three all night.


:laughs:

That is why I had to buy (yet another plug bag) the small bag this year! So I could carry less! But I keep the big bag with (35 plugs in there) in the truck (along with two carrying cases each with 5 plano boxes loaded to the gills) just for backup!:D I got enough in "backup" to equip this friggin island.
After using the small bag I found I needed the large belt pouch for a few extra things I don't really use. Your right!!! this is a disease.

priceless= my vacation ><> the wife and kid and her mother/dad vacation :)

VB

Tattoo,

You just described my life. May I also add spending incredible amount of time driving by the numerous shorelines looking for schooling fish and working birds? Often times driving completely out of the way of your intended destination to "check" the beach.

you never add up what you really spend on all this sh*t cause you know it would re-awaken a surpressed drinking problem.

Hey, without tackle sluts like us there'd be no buy-sell-trade forums on the web. :laughs:

"you never add up what you really spend on all this sh*t cause you know it would re-awaken a surpressed drinking problem."


Best post of the day Sandman!!


:cheers:

Mr. Sandman.....guess that explains why I suddenly gave up drinking .....can't afford both and I would rather be a fall-down plug slut!:happy:

It takes you 40 minutes to select which plugs your going to put in your plug bag.

You've done the math to see if you can justify having a swimming pool just for herring.

You look in your buddies plug bag and are pissed because he has a plug you dont have.

You have a dedicated fishing vehicle.

Any time one of your buddies buys something that you don't have, you either have to buy at least two of whatever its is or one of something better (more expensive) just so you'll be able to sleep that night.

the People at work won't let you make the coffee any more because you've been up since 2 fishing and want it REAL strong.

You have a 2 oz crippled herrng in you ashtray, a #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& needle in your console and 2 packs of ledgerunners on you backseat floor, and I have clients in the car heading to close on their $600k home. Ever seen a Wellesley soccer mom reach under her arse and pull out a 9" sluggo with a 2.5 oz lead head?

Ever seen a Wellesley soccer mom reach under her arse and pull out a 9" sluggo with a 2.5 oz lead head?

No, but if you've got video please post it.....

You are in a store and you reach in your pocket to get some change any you pull out a few spro ball bearing swivels....and you are happy you finally found them!

When ledgerunners appear in the gf's car cause they fell out of your vest pocket....

When you go to a presentation and the people next to you comment on the bluefish scale on your boots from the previous predawn fishing....

When you leave work early to catch schoolies on 10ft convench (just in case moby is around) and the fish are only 2x bigger than the plug.....

you have a separate computer just for sb.com:rolleyes:

:smash: stop it! your making me feel like I MIGHT have a problem..

well on that note, I'm off to greenhill for some schoolie surprise :smokin:

You check the washer and the dryer for crosslock snaps you shoved in your pocket a few days back.

You find gear that you didnt even know you had, have no recolection of ever buying it or who the hell gave it to you.

You have a bent treble hook on your dresser in the bed room so you wont forget about that monster fish you lost.

You think to yourself, If I wasn't married with kids I could fish alot more.

Your already thinking about what new gear is coming out for 2005 that you need.

You already have 300lbs of lead in bucktail jigs, but buying a few more wont hurt.

You have plugs in your truck year round - just in case.

You realize that you know you are sick and twisted about fishing, but then you read these posts and rationalize that Tattoo and Sandman are worse......:pop:

Took my daughter out of her toddler car seat last week and noticed a blurple needlefish that got stuck in the back of her seat when I took my rod out of the car. A few nights before, I was in a hurry to get in the surf so I cut the line and left it there. Its still there today......

When you get down to your last couple of bucks, and you decide to get eels & gas over beer:smash:

5/0

The buying of my condo had my fishing lifestyle seriuosly factored in.
1. First floor, easy in and out with the 1pc rods through the slider
2.Spare bedroom, basically converted to a fishing shed
3.Walls, 1 in living room at least 10.5 feet to hang rods
BTW, also have a gazillion plugs: but almost always fish eels.

when you had to withdraw from class 'cause the fall run got in the way........

From A Class or ALL classes?

Ahh... the days of skipping class to fish, been there, done that....
I remember studying in the back of my truck in May waiting for the tide to turn at C-town.... :smash:

Your wifes car has a flat tire, she complains, you take a look and see a 8/0 VMC treble hook buried in the tire. You're happy to see it didn't destroy the hook.

Your taking the dog for a walk, she takes a dump and it has 4" of a "berkley power worm" hanging off it .

Your diging thru an old tackle box, you find a "brand new" gibbs plug and you know its for sale on ebay as a collectable.

A visitor stops by, you and your wife go out to greet them, they see all the rods lined up in the garage ready to go fishing and says..."MY GOD!, thats a lot of fishing stuff!, why do you need so many rods?" and your wife can't wait to hear your answer, again. (you make a note not to invite them again)

You buy a $22K outboard to "save gas".

You are happy to get a phone calls at 2:30am from some friend on the beach....


Thinking about getting another boat....and still keeping the one you have now as a "backup"


You are embarressed to tell someone how many hours you put on the boat this season and don't really see a need for an "hour meter" on your next boat.

Considered investing in a gas station to save on your re-fueling costs.

Considered buying a home in a foreign country so you can fish year round.

Your in line at the chappy ferry and a tourist sees the truck, rods on the roof and cooler rack....says...going fishing? Yep !...they reply "you're going to pay 8 bucks just to fish?" and you break out in laughter and reply I WISH it was only 8 bucks.

You have seen the same fellow on the beach for 5 years now and have never seen him in daylight and only know him from his truck.

Its mid Feb. and your $400 "hook order" arrives and your really happy cause you know spring is commin..

Whatdoyoumean honey?, Doesn't everyone have 3 refrigerators and 3 deep chest freezers(?)

You have 24 cu ft freezer just for bait and it is not big enough.

Spend over $1000 on stuff to catch and keep bait alive...to "save money" on your bait.

You through out several pair older waders that don't leak but are just getting old (to make room for new breathable ones) and you see the trash collection guy trying them for size on in the street.

You have trained yourself to survive on coffee and candy bars...for the entire fall run...and like it. When the seasons ended and you start eating normally again, you experience DT's from the withdrawl of the fall run diet.

Your favorite snack food is starbucks choc. covered coffee beans with a RedBull chaser.


You realize you have been fishing so hard recently you have not been home at night for weeks, and that you not had sex for a month, so you invite your wife to join you "fishing" the next night. :)


You have numerous outstanding custom plug orders at any given time and can't wait to get them...even though you don't need them you need them anyway. :confused:


Your wife hopes the wind blows hard so she can play golf with you this summer.

Local tackle shops have your home, office and cell phone numbers and use them frequently.

Wife wants to get a second home in the mountains, to get a way from fishing for a few months.

Wife prays they shorten the length of "the derby"

You are thinking of going in with another guy and buying a walk-in freezer and a commerical ice machine...to save money of course!

You wonder where that guy on the cape gets those funny pants and could that be the reason for his success as a fisherman? :)

You get really excited when a sb.com'er is going to the same place you the week prior and will fill you in on his results befor you leave.

Your son when asked at school, if he could be anyone in the world for a day who would he be and why....chooses to be Mike Laptew because would be kewl to see what is at the bottom of the ocean. (really)

When you see an old Uncle Josh glass porkrind jars with the caps that rusted...it brings back fond memories.

You look at your garden hose lying on the ground and think about making a really big tube just for the hell of it.

During the fall run your hands are so bad with nicks and cuts that you can not type on a keyboard.

You thought the title of this thread was about the fishing related flesh eating bacteria.

Considered growing sandworms (seaworms) as a hobby.(really)

You keep eels in live-buckets tied up at the dock....on three different islands.

You attend a fancy work related event... and more then one person asks "what happened to your hands?"

You bring your vehicle in for an oil change and when the mechanic drops the skid plate 30# of sand land in his shop floor.

you like the taste of seawater

You can't hear anything out of your right ear all fall because a wave hit a nearby cusped rock thereby jetting seawater into your ear at Mach 2.

you pray to GOD that you don't get sick during the fall run (and thank him afterwards)

Your church actually plans an activity around your fishing schedule.

You say screw it! to the rest of the world, sell everything you own (except your fishing stuff) and move you and your family to an island for a better quality of life... and to be closer to good fishing.:)


You downsize your house so you can get a better boat.

You have no idea what day it is but you know what the tides are.

Your so used to sleeping 3 hours a day you get bored lying in bed in the off season.

You have just about every striper book ever written but have not read any of them.

You cast plugs with no hooks in the back yard so the dogs can chace them on days with bad tides.

You live less than 1.5 miles away from the water, but you contimplate on moving closer.

You freinds at work think your hung over every Monday morning.

You have the biggest room in the house dedicated to old plugs and fishing gear.

How bout having dreams of eels biting your hands and wake up laughing about it...
Contimplating putting off getting married for another year just so you can buy all the tools you want so you can turn plugs
Or when you climb into bed @4 in the morning and she says, {did you wash your hands,they stink} and all you can do is smile
Instead of sitting and talking after dinner, you sneak off to the cave and just look at all your plugs, rods, and gear like you have never seen it before...

You can't relax during season cuz you know somewhere, someone is killing them and it could be you.

Anybody that schedules a function during the season is now an inconsiderate jerk(really why not get married in Jan)

I go to work at 3-4am, but think nothing of getting up at 12 to fish a few hours before work.

Originally posted by Tattoo
You convince yourself you need another backup rod for the 9 you already have marked as "backup".

You stuff 35 plugs in your Aquaskinz bag and fish the same three all night.

You convince yourself that you will eventually use the 30 yellow bombers you bought and it was a good investment.

Except for the age difference, we could be twins separated at birth :D :laughs:

"But, but, what if they're only eating a Smokey Joe Redfin and I don't have it with me!!!!" :wall:

You have one dress belt and about 6 wader belts.

Your keychain is a 2 oz kastmaster.

You put ski racks on the roof in spring and take them off in fall.

You figured out a way to modify the spot cooler in your server room to aerate your eel bucket.

You've taken a shower in the parking lot of your office at 7:59am because you needed to check just one more spot.

Your kids can drop a 1.5 oz plug (w/out hooks) in a hula hoop 70' away. It just takes the 4 year old more tries.

You already know that your anniversary and wife's birthday are on a new moon next summer. :wall:

You can't get out of bed at 7:00 to make it to work on time but getting up at 2:30 to go fishing doesn't require an alarm clock.

My fridge and freezer are basically empty except for, Frozen fish, eelskin plugs, and eelskin jigs.

How can we forget the "I'll be back in two hours" line. Only to return two days later.

Buying a bigger truck because the "old" truck was too small to carry all your fishing gear. Still currently working this angle.

Trading in you motorcycle for a boat.

Choosing your friends based on whether or not they share my "addiction".

This is a great thread!!!

Oh yeah, ever set a hook in your dreams and knock your wife out of bed?

Problem? . . . What problem? . . . I can quit any time I want

I only take a couple of plugs with me , Right Tattoo. No Sickness here...Ya right..........................

HABS - The only guy I know who brings the large surfcaster bag and the large Aquaskinz bag with him on the rocks.

Also the only guy I know that has no less than 30 needlefish in ever shape and color with him while fishing. Looses one and replaces it with the same thing from the back of the truck.

You sell off some gear you haven't used because she thinks you have to much, then take the money and buy different stuff.

You tie leaders at work.

You have no idea who the hell the boston red sox are or how to catch one.

People ask you did you see the game and you have no idea what the hell they are talking about.

You have trained your body to shut down all no neccasarry functions while fishing. You drink 6 cups of coffee and never have to pee while fishing. The body starts up again as soon as you start the ride home.

You send $350 bucks and 3 1/2 hours getting a striper tattooed on your back.

By the way, these are all true......Keep them coming

You wade a certain area of the SE Cape in 57-60 degree water in early June without waders for 6 hours on what was supposed to be a "scouting" trip. You clearly are suffering from hypothermia, but will not leave the water due to an abundance of big fish. You are urged off the flats by a number of fisherman who are truly concerned about your condition.

You find a 5/0 hook in your vest pocket in line at Dunkin Donuts "the hard way."

You have contemplated throwing a plug at breaking fish on the Vineyard ferry only to be threatened with your life by your fiancee.

Originally posted by Bronko
You have contemplated throwing a plug at breaking fish on the Vineyard ferry only to be threatened with your life by your fiancee.

I actually did that one time 2 years ago from the freight boat, I just could not take it!! we were going thru a massive school of bonito going wild!.... mussled it to the boat and lost the fish trying to haul it up the side....(my wife was not around that day:hee: ) The ferry guy kindly asked me to "refrain from fishing on the boat" but I had a decent crowd of spectators around.


here is another:

I am afraid to start making plugs...I don't need another "problem" disease

Your wife says your vehicle smells so bad she is going to vomit but you really don't seem to notice it anymore.

Your desk at work is covered in fishing mags all open to different pages of stuff you 'need'
You get aggitated that your boss wants you to do something because you are too busy surfin S-B.com
You have a lunar chart instead of a calendar hung up
No clue what the date is but can tell someone to the minute what time tide is at

Originally posted by t.orlando

BTW, also have a gazillion plugs: but almost always fish eels.

Couldnt be said any better...

Sandman I am with you about plug building..I found myself pricing out lathes the other day and I can barely change a tire.

I honestly could go on for days...

Like booking window seats on all flights out of Logan so I can see birds and breaking fish on takeoffs and landings.

Maybe we should all fish together this spring and have some laughs.:D

There are fish scales stuck to the side of your truck, and you think they look cool.

You wonder how people can own just one rod.

You need a backup reel for every rod.

You visit the herring runs every Saturday starting in January.

You know who is fishing where by what trucks are in the lot, but have no idea who these people are.

You start relating all non fishing events in your life to a fishing experience you had

And based on above then start wondering why people look at you funny afterwards

You talk to your 14 month old about every fishing trip because he's the only one who seems to listen in my family and I'm now convinced he actually understands what I'm saying

You put up an entire shelf rack system in your garage and your wife is extremely impressed. A day later when 90% of storage space is decidated to fishing equipment she changes her mind.

You re-arrange your plug bag twice a week.....in January.

BTW Sandman next time you are throwing out perfectly good "old" waders shoot me a PM.:cool:

You go to a party in the off season and come home with the buckets from the margarita mix because they "will make good eel buckets"

You choose the calender you put up in your office not based on your favorite vendor, but if it has the moon phase on it or not...

No matter where you go or what time of year it is you need to wander over just a little closer to ANY water and look for fish.

You'd rather play hookie then get nookie.

You hear that Pedro is meeting with George Steinbrener in Tampa and you wonder if it's tarpon or snook season there...

Hi, my name's Bruce and I have a fishing addiction.


You wake up your wife because you are setting the hook in your dreams.
Every moment of every day are thoughts about fishing and how you can catch bigger,more and better fish.
Hunks of scrapwood appear as plugs in your mind.
You have to buy fishing line in the winter just because.
You can never have too many plugs, EVER.
You go swimming after a lousy 10 dollar plug after snapping it off.
You snap off a Mr. Pogie bottle swimmer in the canal and contemplate suicide and need to call the phone number on the sign by the bridge.




and Tattoo, you are 100% correct that all bodily functions that could interfere with fishing just shutdown till fishing is over with. :btu:

Vacations are picked around the herring run and fall run only.

you get a fish tattoo on your 18th birtday.

you love the blood that is all over the tailgate of your truck and show it off to friends. they look it as normal.

you have a beach from inside one end of your truck to the other year round so you never feel like you leave the surf.

you are single/divorced because you fish.

your office, living room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and dining room have plugs hanging in them.

when you look to get a new place to live, the selling point is fishing storage space and proximity to the surf.

When you spend more time in waders than you do in bed with your wife.

Jesus, we are a sick bunch aren't we.:eek:

Originally posted by Flaptail
Jesus, we are a sick bunch aren't we.:eek:
That's what my wife said when I went fishing with Canalman the other night with snow on the ground and 18 deg. out.
It's all worth it.:smash:

When you bring an eel into a tattoo parlor
A pile of un-used for years reels sitting in a corner(just in case)
Back-up reels crammed in every corner of your truck.

Nice thread, I am very sick,but apparently not alone: probably come up with a few more..

You fish a tournament 18 hours into your marriage on your honemoon. This annual tournament typically falls on your anniversary. Another tournament falls on her birthday, so you make it a "family event"

You get the wife of your fishing buddy to meet and like your wife so maybe the families can "Vacation Together" on the Vineyard during the Derby (Greg, you saw my other post, right)

You suffer from Sleep Apnea as you forget that when the Doc says eight hours of sleep he doesn't mean in a week. very difficult when you are not a night person or a morning person...

You know precisely how to make the driver's seat as comfortable to sleep in as possible. You have pilloes and a blanket in the car.

You have your favorite parking spot at a rest stop. You know where every highway exit is with a Dunkin Donuts within 2 minutes.

You are willing to risk a powernap on a rock with Korkers as long as it's flat and the surf is small (note to sell - don't try this again)

You take the job that pays 20% less per year because it's closer to fishing but then beotch that you don't have enough coin to buy more gear

Your last line of defense in your argument with your wife is telling her that "at least I'm not out drinking at the bars every nite"

Your infant son says the word "Boat" clearly before "Mom" - I gotta in a lot of stink about that...

Your wife yells at you for ruining the vaccum because all the snipped tag lines wrapping around the roller has burned out the motor.

On the phone with vendors you doodle a reel schematic that will allow you to come out with a better reel than a Van Stall for less money :humpty:

You miss all the good freinds you've made over the years but never get together because they don't fish...

You have more nicks, scrapes, punctures, skin seperations, line cuts than anyone you know.

You don't trim (or bite) two nails as much becuase they are better picking out birdsnets.

You compare entry and exit points of the hooks that have been in your hand with other people that fish.

You shovel the snow in your driveway in waders and Aquaskinz and the smell makes you grin

You almost DREAD the fall run coming because you know it will be over WAY TOO SOON

You have over 140 Fishing related URL's in your Favorites folder.

When you 1st get to work you grab a cup of coffee and check out what's happening on S-B.com......before you read your work E-Mails.

You actually know what the Colors Blurple, Chartruese, Wonderbread, and Eel are.

When you call home at the end of the workday your wife answers the phone "I take it your going Fishing" instead of "Hello"

You now look at any kind of seafood as possible Bait.

By january your wife is actually anxious for Fishing Season to get here so you'll "Just Shut Up About It"

Your last line of defense in your argument with your wife is telling her that "at least I'm not out drinking at the bars every nite"

A classic! I use it all the time....

me too:(
we are pretty sick. I think I better check myself into the Lyman/Woolner Fishermans Annonymous clinic.

Tony O...

"When you bring an eel into a tattoo parlor"

You may have summed up the addiction! Great quote.

ps. Did you fish it after you got inked up?

I use strip clubs. It packs more of a punch!

your favorite sushi is unagi.

Originally posted by Rappin Mikey
I use strip clubs. It packs more of a punch!

Its the "Punch" that I'm afraid of...:D


I've used that line myself a couple of times....can't argue Logic

When you have hundreds of plugs but you only use three night after night....

You tie eel leaders at work....

You outfit your 1999 buick century with a rod rack and a ton of fishing stickers...

You get a million black and blue marks on your legs and arms from rock hopping....

You stay up from 3pm on thursday fish until 11am on saturday drive home and go to work at 5 pm on saturday.....

You first buy fishing stuff then you worry about bills later.....

You think about getting a tattoo on your back of you casting into the night surf......

Good thing I work alone, I am laughing my ass off here guys....

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
Good thing I work alone, I am laughing my ass off here guys....

This thread is a classic in the making :laughs:

You outfit your 1999 buick century with a rod rack and a ton of fishing stickers...


You can debate the finer points of why a Pontiac Fiero is not as bad a fishing vehicle as one would normally think

Your at work and see a nice blitz, run to truck gab rod and tell the busboy to come down to the rocks and tell me when i get an order.

You have priced out a frontal rod-holder cooler and you drive a Camry.

Your idea of internet porn are the pictures of the plugs the guys here are making.

You have hugged a stranger at night in the surf after landing a large.

You have brand new custom rods that have never been cast.

You throw food out thats in the fridge to make room for eelskins.

For some reason everything smells like fish.

For some reason everyone says you always smell like fish.

You wonder why so many people don't fish.

You think about quitting your real job and so you can fish, maybe run a welfare scam or something just to keep the bills paid.

You have a 150 gallon eel tank with more eels in it than a bait shop.

You have a 300 gallon herring tank that you could use as a jacuzi.

Your waders smell so bad that it makes some people gag, but you kind of like it.

You wonder "How the hell did I get so many plugs, and then realize that you don't have as many as your buddy".

You buy plugs buy the dozen, a dozen yellow, a dozen blue, a dozen black.

Originally posted by Tattoo Your waders smell so bad that it makes some people gag, but you kind of like it.
:hihi:
Funniest thread i have read, and the best part is my Fiancee works with me and is reading it noding her head at everyones post. Now she knows you are all as crazy as me :smash:

Originally posted by Tattoo
A classic! I use it all the time....

Damn right, brother.

I've ACTUALLY said that many times to my wife, and she shuts up cuz she knows that's so true!

Originally posted by jugstah
Damn right, brother.

I've ACTUALLY said that many times to my wife, and she shuts up cuz she knows that's so true!

yup same, here!!! Used it a 1000 times.


Here's one, someone steals your parking space at Stop and SHop and you accuse them of spot jumping.

Your kid goes out on Halloween with a Princeton Tec flashlight around her neck.

You get excited seeing seagulls working.....in McDonalds parking lot.

"You get excited seeing seagulls working.....in McDonalds parking lot."

This has happened to me.:conf:

Just the fact that you get excited seeing seagulls.....Period

Im glad I dont have this sickness the symptoms sound really bad .

but I did just get 8 more rods and 3 tackle boxes full last night for the museum .

you attend a catholic school, and hope that when the Pope dies he dies during the fall run so you get 4 weeks of school off.

every t- shirt you own has a striper on it
you've lied to your boss about the scratches on your hands" I was clearing brush over the weekend"
you sneak new gear into the house under the cover of darkness
so the warden/wife won't see you
you live out of your truck for 4-5 days and find that perfectly acceptable
you tell your wife your giving up golf....because its too expensive:laughs:
you get a cabelas visa card with cabelas points and claim all the boxes showing up at the house are free stuff
everything you have is waterproof
every winter you build the ultimate herring tank... 1800 gph and and a $250 aerator just wasn't enough
you claim 40,000 miles a year for work driving not personal use....and race point is 85 miles away from your house
you call the $1000 you've paid to modify your cooler rack a couple of times an Investment!
you only call in sick during september and october
you bought a bike to exercise, now it's outfitted for the canal and you smoke while peddling
:smash:

You are fishing for a week and your truck breaks down, luckily you are already there so it's not a problem.
I see myself in way too many of these.
Pete

Originally posted by chief10
you tell your wife your giving up golf....because its too expensive:laughs: :smash:

Its almost like you were standing in the room w/ me when I said it

You feel more comfortable and spend more time sleeping in the back of your stinky truck than you do in your own bed.....even in your own driveway.

You hump an AquaSkinz bag full of lures for miles and miles every night and NEVER use any of them.

You name each and every eel and talk to them while fishing like they are your near and dear children.... and yell at them when they aren't working.

You leave home to go to work early so you can fish before work.

you leave work early so you can fish before you go home.

you take a hour and a half lunch break so you can fish

you tell your wife that you cant move out of state because there are no stipers in Ohio

you get threatned with couple consuling because you'd rather go fishing than go out to dinner with the wife.

you could care less when your child will take his first steps, but crave the moment he catches his first striper.

you keep 1/s of your plugs at home and 1/2 at work so you can get to the fish quicker.

you bought a car/truck with your fishing needs in mind and not you family's

Your wife accuses you of cheating on her because she believes there is no way humanly possible that you are fishing as much as you say you are.

you make your own plugs because you have no idea what you will do with your free time in the off season.

when your friends and family call you and ask "hows the fishing?" instead of "how are you?"

you spend thousands of $$ on fishing tackle a year but get pissed when your wife asks you to buy her something thats under 200 bucks.

You look at a baby's bottle and wonder how you can attach the nipple to a loaded superstrike darter so it will leak bunker oil slowly out its tail..

you work you ass off in the winter so you can slack in the bass season.

your fishing buddies wives are jelous of you because yoru spending more time with their husbands than they are.

you protect your fishing log with your life and write other peoples fishing sucess in it so you will have a better guide next year.

you get shadowed while driving to your fishing spot because people know you've been catching large.

you call some of your plugs by code name.

you havce certian plugs that you will never show in public because they are working so well for you.

your wife knows some of yoru friends only by their "SB.Com nickname"

I cold go on and on and on... :laughs:

You hump an AquaSkinz bag full of lures for miles and miles every night ........

WHEW!!! I thought you were getting at something else.
:laughs:

Your teeth are sharper than an pair of clippers from cutting mono for years.

You know that you have pounds of sinkers floating around your truck but you better get a couple more just in case.

You go into the tackle shop just to get a dozen eels, and ya leave with those plugs you have been looking for.

Ya see the mackrel in stop and shop and it looks like the best chunk around, and the price seems reasonable.

Your sitting here typing about your addiction and wondering why you arent fishing.

You know that you had a good reason why ya couldnt go fishing, but ya cant remeber what it was and ya kick yourself for hours.

You keep all the fishing stuff in your truck because you think what if i got stranded inthe wilderness, i wouldnt die i could fish.

Your at the canal at night and you see someone walking without a rod and just wonder WHY!!!!!

You didnt need the BAss Pro Shops visa, but they sent it to ya, and it would be a shame for it to go to waste.

You try to draw stripers whenever you have pen and paper.

You swear at eels everytime your fishing, but still swear by them.

Your spouse knows that december-april are your bad months.

You decided many years ago to never give a time when you will be home from a fishing trip.

YOu know that your are the king of prioritization. but also know that you are completly full of it.

You have woken up at night dreaming about a women ch#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g eels naked:D

Can anyone say, longest thread in history. Cant wait to see it in february.

Redlite..
Thought I was the only one who named eels...

How about fishing in the harbor just cause you know it aint safe to go farther in 1/4 mile fog in a 13ft whaler

Conversly, planning on leaving the dock at 1am to cross the main channel of the bay cause its safest in a 13ft whaler at that time..

Every X-Mas your disapointed when gifts aren't about fishing

You spent 100's to 1000's on guitars and dont play at all cause its fishing season, and dont play anymore in the off season cause your spinning wood

Your GF only asked if you were nuts when you left in a snow/sleet storm to go fish Q (good woman!!)

Your family thinks your nuts... even though your old man fishes...
Your GF's family (her dad and brother fish occasionally) think your nuts....

You show up at morning family functions after fishing all night, with out showering or changing...

You leave family functions to hit the right tide for an hour, then sneak back in (Yeah I'm a bad bad man...)

You havent seen your good friends from college cause they live in Providence, and its too far from the fishing grounds and youd rather fish all night

You agree to work for very little $$ up the cape, just so you can fish a night or two there

Your fishing partners are the people you see the most outside of work and family, yet you've never seen them in the daylight

You spend too much time on S-B :D

You can make sand castles on the floor of your truck

You mainline coffee at work

People at work barter with you to get fish... I trade for Zuchini bread :D

People just roll their eyes when they meet you...

You ducked tape over a hole in your waders cause they havent had a chance to dry enough to patch them....

You’re single divorced or seperated and you’re NOT looking, not until after Christmas any how, need a date for new years.
You bought a dedicated fishing vehicle, with money that was intended for a wedding that never happened.
You move out of your ex’s place and take your tackle first, drive half way to where your’re going and remember you’ll need clothes for work.
You fish with 4 or 5 people because all your fishing buddies are married and cant make the commitment.
You’ve got plugs you NEEDED at home in bags in the same box they were shipped in.
Plugs are acceptable Christmas/wedding/easter/ presents
Any chicks that know you know what the following are: moon tide- slack- tidal flood- eels get hooked through the eye depending on the tidal flood/current is moving in..
You have pictures of your fish at work, no family or significant others or no pictures at all
You try to get your hands on a legends who has passed aways old fishing stuff
Calls at 2am are welcome
You don’t drink while you fish, its one or the other concentration is key.
You take a girl out for dinner because the tides arent right THAT night and she gets mad when you don’t call until the tides are bad again….
You welcome overcast days with a slight driven rain
You plan your vacations with a lunar calendar
Your boss buys you tackle
You’ve figured out a way to get your plug bag, extra plugs food red bulls, sleeping bad and cigs all to fit on the floor of the passenger side of a standard cab truck, its comfy..
You use a tuna reel on your schoolie rod cuz ya neva know
You use a meat stick because you’ve been totally owned by a fish before : (
Any new person you meet you ask if their grandparents fished and if they have any “old fishing junk”
You pump the old timers for information in a subtle manner, pastries are involved
Chicks that enjoy fishing are OUT, uh uh not acceptable
OT is a December January thing
You prefer sand bars to gin mills
You develop a good “network” with other fellow rocks, sand, surf addicts, all of which was started by a fellow rocks, sand, surf addict.
Boats only when you need a fix BAD or the captn is there more for bs’ing and slingin’ eels
Half a dozen tackle shops know you by your first and last name.
Finally this is true just called 5 mins ago- you don’t know the tackle shop hours cuz you call the owner and he meets you there even if they are closed so you can get your eels

I can't tell you how many of these apply to me. It is actually pretty damn sad :(

u take a semester off from college and blow ur tuition on plugs/rods :P

Originally posted by bart
when you had to withdraw from class 'cause the fall run got in the way........

Did that happen Rob?

This is funny stuff!!!!

heres a few from me.....

have used my purse as a make shift tackle box....

placing fishing related items all over the place to make it seem like you have less (ever try putting it all in one big pile???:eek: )

never have an extra loaf of bread in the freezer but there IS some leftover bait from your last trip in there.... "just in case"

your vacuum cleaner wouldnt work because you had leader material wrapped around every moving part:rolleyes:

Putting a herring tank in the work truck when the route would take me near a run.
Filletting fish at work.


This is my favorite thread of all time.

If I wasn't fishing I was thinking about fishing

Your wife accuses you of cheating on her because she believes there is no way humanly possible that you are fishing as much as you say you are.

you spend thousands of $$ on fishing tackle a year but get pissed when your wife asks you to buy her something thats under 200 bucks.

Eben I have to show these to my wife. That way I am not the only one.

Originally posted by tlapinski
You see your buddies Saltiga and realize you need one in each size. :smash:


:eek:

Originally posted by tynan19
Eben I have to show these to my wife. That way I am not the only one.

just dont show mine!

Originally posted by tynan19
you spend thousands of $$ on fishing tackle a year but get pissed when your wife asks you to buy her something thats under 200 bucks.
No...exactly the opposite. It should read...

You spend thousands on fishing tackle, and the wife is astounded when you instantly say yes when she asks for large diamond earrings :D

I'm not saying this happened to me this fall :rolleyes: just that it would be funny :laughs:

-spence

When I plan a 10 week Camping trip 2005, and pay for it in full, in Wareham cause it is close to the water 1 year 3 months in advance.

My job just asked me if i want to change from a 5 day work week, to a 10 hour 4 day work week with Thutr, Fri, and Sat off and I say ok but I hate the week end ramp traffic so I will do it only if i have Mon, Tue, Wed off!

When I no I will be camping then, and the boat will be there also, and i have figured out how to work only two days a week all summer!!

10 days vacation, 3 holidays, 7 days comp time = 20 days off, 2 days a week off, 2 days work = same money
and only work 2 days a week from June 27 to Labore day!!

Life is good!!
:happy: :happy:

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by redlite

You name each and every eel and talk to them while fishing like they are your near and dear children.... and yell at them when they aren't working.}


...or you've held a solemn burial at sea ceremony for an dead eel that has done valiant service

You constantly tell your eels that you will set them free if they bring VERY large

In your best Bill Murphy voice you tell the eel "This won't hurt, doctor's orders"

You have dreams of that wonderfull June morning on the drop at Scorton's with the bass tailing as the sun edges over the horizon...

When you drive east over the Jamestown and Newport Bridges and you wonder if there are any fifties under you RIGHT NOW


When you drive east over the Jamestown and Newport Bridges and you wonder how big the bass are off in distant Cuttyhunk and Gay Head

You stand on you favorite bar or rock and wonder what is the biggest bass that's ever been there...

Damn - gotta go to bed

you bring your dog up to a field with your favroite rod and reel, you tie your line to your dogs collar then you throw a bone as far as you can and you set your drag, and close your eyes....Jez I am sick:eek:

You Put a Rod Rack on your 87 Lincoln town Car (true in 96)

You buy Plano 3700 boxes by the case because all your plugs are stored by name and size (true)

You show your local tackle shop what the new items are for the upcoming year (true)

Fishing the Derby is worth more than paying the rent.

Your Gf begs you to stand in a tub full of water so that it will improve your mood in January (true)

You own a small Painting company and find nothing unusual with the fact that your Rod Rack has a secondary use as a Ladder rack (true)

You leave the job site in Onset center every day at 9:30 am to drop by M & D's...just to see if the Sea Spooks came in....you return at 5pm...this goes on for days until you finally read they came in over the weekend (true)

Every time you read an article about fishing the MV derby you well up with tears (true)

You are seen sleeping at the same rest area at the same time of day on consecutive sunday afternoons (true)

You get really really pissed when you realize the birds are all in a frenzy because some damn old guy is feeding them popcorn on the seawall at the beach (frequently true)

On the Thursday before the MSBA show is set up in March, your GF takes you into the bedroom, gives you a big kiss and says.....see you in november....and we live together

Originally posted by Peter Lajoie
you bring your dog up to a field with your favroite rod and reel, you tie your line to your dogs collar then you throw a bone as far as you can and you set your drag, and close your eyes....Jez I am sick:eek:

That's funny, in the winter I tie on a plug with no hooks and cast away in my backyard, my dog grabs it and the fight is on. I close my eyes and pretend I have a 50#er on. My wife always ruins it by yelling "What are you trying to kill him?" She thinks I'm using hooks.:laughs:

Symptoms of the disease that indicate it is indeed hereditary:

Your 3 year old son gets to your plug stash before you can put hooks on them and uses them as tub toys. He's been doing this since he was 18 months and he will be four next week.

You must wait until son gets tired of a particular plug so you can "lose it", throw hooks on it, and sneak it into the plug bag

All of your Blue Swimming plugs are in the "Tub Toy box" during spring :smash:

You tie a leader on a hookless danny plug (or Pikie, or Flaptail or mag darter) during son's bathtime to see how well it will swim while contemplating attaching splitshot to belly swivels to simulate balance factor of hooks.

Son's favorite lures are blue Dannys and Blurple Needlefish

You realize that your 2 ounce Storm Wildeyes are still at home as cut the hooks off two of them to play Big Fish eats Little Fish before stories the night before....

Son STILL has not relinquished Blue Danny plug and did I mention he said BOAT before MOMMA ?

I could go on with this :smash:

Ok, you show up at BM's bat cave, cast a limited edition habs into the cave and reel it out slowly... when the BM leaves the cave you run in and grab his plugs..

OK so that hasnt happened... not like I've thought about it

Ok, a true one; I sit at work looking at the Piping Plover Lure I made last winter that hangs from the shark jaws on my wall and contemplate how bad it would professionally to cast it into an Audobon society meeting and start jiggin it.....

You are having a "romp" with your wife - smell something like bait & sneak out after to go fishing.

Your trunk is always loaded with fishing gear.

You see any body of water & analyzie it for structure, rips, bird activity & access points even if its rain water in the gutter.

You only have $5.00 and buy bait rather than lunch even though you know you will not eat again till breakfast.

Barnicles are your friends.

You have bought macs at the 24 hr. Stop & Shop because the Bait Store is closed & you just can't wait.

You pee in a large Dunkin Donuts cup while you are driving because your back teeth are floating & just don't want to pull over - it would take to long.

You buy so much spare stuff that you can't store it all neatly. Then you start stacking spare stuff on spare stuff until the pile is so deep , you can't see what's on the bottom. then you buy more spare stuff of what's on the bottom cause you forgot its there. And so on and so on and so on......

Sometimes when you cannot make it to CT, RI, and the Cape - you walk to to the East River and fish for an hour or so JUST to say you went fishing....

Whenever you are out to eat and a waiter/waitress is taking drink orders - you ALWAYS order "A large Bass."

And it has nothing to do with how the beer tastes.

John,
Good one! My kids did the same thing with plugs in the bath tub. Also made a childrens mobile over the crib with small plugs hanging from it. Great memories - my kids are now 19 and 15.
How about setting the hook in your dreams? I haven't done that in years.
DZ

Seagulls follow you three miles to work just to pick the scraps of herring outta the back of your truck

You turn off (or ignore) your cell phone but your employees know where to find you (although sometimes it takes them a few hours!)

Your Co-Workers put thier striper-fillet orders in during the first week of April

Your children keep asking you what is so funny whilst you are reading this thread

You check for structure and water movement during ocean scenes while watching movies

You disguise a family trip to Newport as a reason to fondle and purchase more gear at Saltwater Edge ("I'll only be a minute!)

When JFK Jr's plane went down you called your fishing buds to discuss the structure of Philbin's Beach you saw in the footage on TV - I know, it's rude but it was true

any one fall asleep standing up fishing other than Me.
I fell once (eeling)
to many friggen plugs, I got plugs out my ass and out anyone who rides with me.
My waiders are in my truck and I have 2 plug bags in there, Yet I I cleaned out the truck of fishing bags.
I fished so friggen hard I couldnt fish.
not noing some guys during the day with out waiders.
the drive by rod rack look.
i have sand on top of my motor.
so many plugs in all my bags that some of the tubes in my vs bag split. gs rubber hidden and You forget about it.
swivels hooks, splits, leader and then more in the glove and hooks stuck in the visor.
back up swivels to back up the friggen back ups:smash: what the frig am i thinking. spare reel in the glove. rods ,I got blanks and back ups of blanks. reels a spare vs new in the box never used it cause its a back up:smash: yet the handle is falling of my reel.
more gs rubber hidden as back up so when I run out I freak out at bob only to find the stach under a tote of wood, wtf.,,..,.,
guessing at the tide and going and being close or right on.
a trashed eldridge tide chart book (((thats the Bible Boys))
freaking out cause you left a plug you wanted in the truck only to walk a mile to get it:smash: and drop off 1 of the 3 bags you carried with You.
plugs all over the dash. wearing waiders and not knowing why people are looking at You and smelling You:confused: I think bass smells good.
FRIGGEN HERRING MENTAL IN SPRING, herring suck yet keeping 3 tanks going and hateing herring only to throw plugs at the fish when they come up top.
that I need a fix feeling sucks and going, when Im home i want to fish when I fish i want to be home.
1 more friggen cast for the last 2 hrs int the turn.
going to work looking like a zombie and thinking that they are geeks cause they dont fish. but they eat well.
what is sick is I look at my plugs and say i am low on wood.
if I have under 10 black and gold bombers Im freaking out.
I bought 200 bombers in 1 shot only to go buy a 12 rapalas from eastmans to troll of the fence.
when some one has a plug i dont have I mental it right out from them with custom wood when i am crazed.
when Your charters and or friends ask why are those people following You. How come alot of people know Me yet I cant remeber no one. yet at 230 am on a new moon some one will say Hi and I know who it is....
when You deside where You work and wont take another job if its to far from a herring run or runs. Buying a house only cause its close to the ramp and runs (falmouth)
getting 1 whiff or walking outside and next thing You know Your down the beach due to a slight wind or that out side look at the sky.
run to the beach catch a fish in between 2 of Your buddies and then leave to go home to watch TV anf then come back out( that was a classic I did ) :D
I just got one thing to say, these fish make me out of my friggen skull.................

make me sicker:gorez: :eek5:

Blurple is now a crayola crayon color!

In May the crisper drawers in the fridge are 'reserved' for herring.

The kids have named the eels swimming in the bucket on the back porch. (they do all kinda look the same :))

Your 4 year old daughter goes with you to the beach and tries to help you find new 'spots' to fish!

You buy a coffee maker with a timer so the coffee's ready when you get up for the 2 am turn.

The honda civic you drive to work contains waders, slicker,shell, 3 sweatshirts, 3 tackle bags, 2 rods, gloves and spare socks, just in case you Need to go straight from work!!

You decide to sell a few reels because you could use the $$ and you tell yourself you dont need them all, only to find out that six months later you have bought the same reels again because you need them?

You have had two major surgeries on your arm to repair problems caused by fishing!

Your not supposed to use your arm while recovering from the surgeries and are actually contemplating going fishing with your partners and telling them that they have to cast for you and if you hook a big fish they will have to reel it in for you?

Your trying to decide on what you want to do for a new career and are crossing out the ideas that would prevent you from fishing during the week!

You spend hours in your shed after the wife and kids are asleep re-arranging your plugs on the wall! You especially like it when she puts the kids to bed early and is asleep by 9:00... that gives you even more time.

You fill a cooler with beer and take it into the shed so that you dont have to keep going back to the house!

You spend at least an hour a day surfing the fishing section of ebay.......

You look at lobsters in a tank and first think yum, then think.... I bet that would catch me a cow.

Satisfaction of.... Getting home after sunrise, drinking one more beer with your buds before taking a fat nap, setting up shop in the driveway afterward to clean and prep your gear, carefully packing it like a fireman in case of an emergency, being showered and in the chair by 1:00 to catch the Pats or the Sox!


Also another sign.... getting yelled at by wife for taking a fat nap on the couch in the clothes on that you fished in ("I had waders and a dri-top on!")

Having your body shut down..(doesnt count as sleeping)

sleeping with all your gear on

waking up on a rock

read on THE LETTERMAN SHOW, their great.:D

I had a buddy of mine use the excuse with his wife he was fishing but he was seeing his girlfriend, and he had to go buy a striper before he came home. He doesn't fish anymore cause he married his girlfriend after he was divorced.


My wife said if I quit smoking I could spend the money on fishing tackle. When I quit smoking I was doing four packs a day at $1.68 a pack. I have proportionally raised what I spend to correspond with inflation and the industry price rises of butts. So 4 packs a day of Winstons would cost about $22.00 a day now, which comes to $154.00 buckos a week. I can't afford that certainly but when my sweetie moans about the gear I buy I remind her about her promise.

Patrick I have to see a picture of you standing in waders in the tub. Gotta see that one.

Going fishing for 9 hours not getting a fish and thinking about this thread as you bust your tail on the rocks.

Youve thought of a way to sneek into the local aquarium at night to fish the striper tank :-}

You have fished with a shirt and tie and suit pants on under your waders.

You have plugs sent to your office so your wife doesn't find out.

You get expense checks, cash them, open a passbook savings account, order plugs, get a money order, have plugs sent to office so wife doesn't find out.

You go into back seat of car, pull down arm rest, get a knife, cut out all the stuff, open trunk, put in rods through trunk, into car with tips up against dashboard. Wife found out.

You by accident left garage door open so mice got in and you trap one and tell wife it was living in the side of the basement that serves as your fishing command central, so she is too affraid to go in there and see what you got.

You ask her if she would rather that you chase after other women and she finally says yes- its more normal.

When the stripers were in the seal tank at the NE Aquarium in 2000 (the seals were removed) you devised several plans to sneak live eels in so you could truly see how Mrs 40 pounder REALLY sucks down the eel... No Chit

Follow up - the grossest display of idiocy that year was when they reintroduced the seals into the tank without removing the Bass. The biologists didn't think captivity raised seals would attack and eat the stripers....

:rollem:

im 16 so

girls think your wierd beacause all you talk about is fishing and they say you smell like fish.

teacher gives you hell beacause you read OTW in class.

all you do during class is draw fish on your binder.

dont have a girlfrend beacause it would take up fishing time.

fall asleep during class beacause you were out fishing the night before:p

when your going home on the bus and you look at buttermilk bay and scan the water for boils and birds working

When you agree to your wedding day (mid-October) based on the honeymoon being in January.

Buying a house in proximity to prime fishing grounds.

Working for companies that pay less than if you travelled to the city....but you can always go scout the water.

Not eating lunch but instead going to see the same old stuff at the local tackle shops.

Having more back up gear, brand new in storage than gear you actually use.

Having more line in different Lbs. and makes than you will use in a lifetime...because you might need them.

Researching carry tubs and customizing them for your 15 mi. ride to the nearest beach with 300 plugs in it.....not to mention the 3 bags, 3 pouches which are full and loose plugs hanging off the customized plastic around the tub.

Dedicating a whole garage to your fishing equipment and buying a large storage shack for the stuff "that just doesn't fit in the garage"

Losing your space in bed to your 4 year old because "you are fishing daddy".

Not knowing what you have and getting very happy when you find it.

Explaining to the wife, she needs to drive her old car but you need to buy a 35K vehicle (4X4) because you need to be able to get back & forth from work in all conditions.

Buying 5 new rods and 7 new reels, new $1,000 kayak (not to mention everything else that I can't now remember) this year alone but not having the time to use them...and knowing it when you buy them.

No...no, no, no....I am okay, I don't need any help, thank you....but like a lot of us....I don't spend my money on booze & other women.....the wife appreciates that :D

Mike, you have brought everyones non-problems to the forefront with this thread. :smash: ;)

Kadir

if you have next years vacations planned around the tides

you have to work in 4 hours, it takes an hour and 15 to get to SoCo, and your leaving to go fishing even though most of the reports are quite slow, because you know that the plug ya got last week wont be able to be happy over the winter if it doesnt catch something before ya put it up for the year. Plugs have feelings right, if they didnt we wouldnt talk to them.

One of my favorite threads..
You have a fly vise on your desk at work for tying teasers,
20+ mags all fishing related on your desk.
Tail hooks and bucktail everywhere.
Floor of your cube is covered in deer hair and flashaboo and not one sign of real Work stuff anywhere. .
Every t-shirt you wear is fishing related..
She thinks I am crazy because I seriously think about fishing 24-7

Your boss brings in field n stream for you...
Your boss tells you to take an extended lunch to go buy your eels....
Your boss will offer to ice your eels down for you because they know how bad it sucks to keep them alive while youre at work....
Your co workers know you collect old tackle and keep an eye out for stuff for you while they go on vacation... They all know your life will not be complete until you have a soco chief...
The folks you work with know that youre on the beach most weekends and offer to take your on call rotation..
Your boss offers to get wireless for the laptop for any instances where you are on call and cant get to a pc...
Your bosses boss, comes to visit and asks for the crazy fisherman dood(yea she said dood) and offers you an 8hr charter with her hubby who knows every nook and cranny from baja to alaska.... and hes been a charter captn for 35 yrs... yeah I'll be out there next month lord willing...
You dont recall the last time you saw someone fishing's face...
You dont recall the last time you got fit shaced....
You go on "dates" when the tides are horrible....
Your co-workers all know you have a problem..they cover for you...
you boss covers for you... encourages you....
you've got more than 8 hook sizes under your passengers side of your vehicle "just in case"
You've successfully mouted 20 bait patterns on your visor...
You sit in the parking area debating 9wt or all star spinner
You fly fish at night...
You walk around ppl you know on purpose...its dark.. youre not sure...
You havent had a full nights sleep since mid april....
if you call into work your boss asks you how much it weighed...
Your boss helps you look up airfare so you can fly to the other side of the country to catch stripers..
You can tie knots with your eyes closed....
You've fished while sleeping, Im just going to close my eyes during this retreive... The hit and the set wake u up... the ziiiiiiiiiinnng relaxes you..
Broad, beer or bass the answer is obvious....
sunlight makes your eyes hurt...
folks you know call you dracula...
You cant remember you went to the beach to "swim"
You constantly blow off loose women to catch bass... you call them between dec and april....
Your curtain rods are for plugs not curtains...
You've got 3 dozen frozen eels in your freezer.. just in case...
You post online because you cant fish while youre at work... but you're working on a way to...
You work in an office and your hands are torn to chit.. Left thumb convench, right index casting braid... calloused.....
Your amazed that there are other fish besides stripers... youre amused for a short period of time..
You wont hangout with the folks from work.. they've all been deemed nerds.... they dont fish..
people who dont fish are just ok...
you only know the names of the ppl. who are immediate to any tasks you do at work.. everyone else gets a seinfeld name... IE Lady who shouldnt wear bright colors, guy whos clearly on meds.., lady with the ghetto ring tone, there are others... You dont care what their names are they dont fish...

The VP of sales comes up to you because he called and you didn't answer your Cell.....and you look at him all serious and say "Hey, I was fishing"

Your car constantly smells of either dead herring or rancid wading boots.....that have baked in the sun @ 100 degrees.....And you don't have a problem w/ that.

You can't give anyone a ride anywhere because your backseat is permanent home for a 150 quart cooler and your afraid of what size hooks will impale their a$$ if they sit in the front seat.

The envelope that Your daughter's Father's Day Card came in reads "For information on The Dad Fisherman, Please log onto www.striped-bass.com" (yeah, this one IS real)

Your wife now knows when you say You're "Sporting Wood" that you mean you have a Full Plug Bag.

Hilarious thread by the way,

You go on a date to Newport with an attactive girl only she gets mad at you during the mansion walk because "your down at the water checking out the spots"

your more excited when "on the water" comes to you house, than your roomates play boy.

You go to the beach and contemplate stealing a little kids kite, to try and make a make shift eel out rigger for late nights on the beach.

your wedding photos include fishing rods.

you cut the guides off of the 20 or so broken rods you have laying arround and put the blanks out for the trash. only to run back out in the middle of the night to get them before someone else does.

you know how to milk a fish.

you can find your best fishing holes bye triangulation, quicker than gps.

you swap the hooks out on plugs, and keep the old rusty ones.

baby poo is nasty but fish crap splattered all over your shirt is kool.

when you get a fish, your happier that you got your eel back, rather than the fish you just caught.

you can type faster than your secretary.

you got bass thumb so bad you don't need a rag to handle eels.

you bought a suburban so you could get a bigger herring tank.

you start you own herring run. {three more years and i'll be stylin :)}

your wife aks you if you are ready for your fathers day gift :heybaby: and you say " umm welll, ummm, i really need to go pick up eels for tonight before the shop closes.....but i'll be really quick"

you take five fishing rods, three plug bags, and your waders on your honeymoon :hee:

you keep going to b&t shops for no reasons, but just to shop and purchase items that you dont really need.


you just keep comparing relationships with fishing.


you keep buying AH spooksters because you are losing it everytime and fireline doesnt hold out much.

you forgot to take care of your reels and send them to maddog2020, the reel doctor.

you got a spending habit.

you choose fishing voer friendships and women. that's a nirvana.

o Proud of the 'sand box' you could fill with all the sand around the area you
hose off your waders!

o Quelling your wifes suspicions you're leaving her by justifying the necessity of
having half your wardrobe in your truck at all times.

o Finding you're using 'fishing' words in too many work related situations, i.e.
structure, fishy, etc etc.

I had a blue 77 chevy van that I used that stunk so bad from old squid my wife and everyone else refused to ride in it until I replaced the plywood on the floor of the van. Even Ray Metcalf walked by it once on the dock going to his car and commented on the strong odor. He chuckled about it as he was walking away.

Your wife, after you fishing the bass derby every year (the year she was getting chemo) but one since you married her, starts getting a lit put out with the annual trip. Saw this coming and started saving a number of years ago and bought her a new diamond getting myself another 20 years of fishing the vineyard derby. Talk about forethought.

Not that I think about dying, but my headstone is going to have my name below a fisherman walking toward the beach and setting sun at sunset with bait bucket in hand. I don't know what going on my wifes. I havent' chatted with her about that.

You tell the UPS, Fedex, and every other delivery company drivers only to stopped if the corrollas not in the driveway.

I don't now how it happened but A POST ON PAGE 6 AND ONE ON PAGE SEVEN i DID NOT WRITE BUT ARE ATTRIBUTED TO ME.

I don't now how it happened but A POST ON PAGE 6 AND ONE ON PAGE SEVEN i DID NOT WRITE BUT ARE ATTRIBUTED TO ME.


swimmer look at the dates.
this is an OLD thread someone dug up

Mrs. Link here,
You know your husband is hooked, when you tell him " when I drove passed Ellis Haven in Plymouth, I almost killed a peacock crossing the road," and he says "you should have hit it, the feathers would have made some nice jigs." sick huh!
Later,
Mrs. Link :confused: :confused:

hhahahahha good one Mrs Link! :kewl:

You know your husband is hooked, when you tell him " when I drove passed Ellis Haven in Plymouth, I almost killed a peacock crossing the road," and he says "you should have hit it, the feathers would have made some nice jigs." sick huh!
You outta see my brother's freezer.....die hard fly fisherman.....dead turkey, birds, hawks - you name it he grabs it for it's feathers.......I call him Mr. Roadkill..... :yak6:

When the first striper you ever caught is 20" and you are excited until you see the guy in the boat 50 feet in front of you catch a 40"er and you tell your husband " We need to buy a boat to get to the really big fish". On the way home you stop at marina and buy a boat.

To save money on gas, you're thinking about buying a motorcycle and figuring out how to weld on rod holders and a tub for waders and plug bag

This one's morbid-you wish it were possible, upon death, to be cut up and fed to blitzing bass.....

when yu've got so much gear that buying 3 new rods a year isnt even noticable.

:tooth:

:wave: Mr. Sandman.....guess that explains why I suddenly gave up drinking .....can't afford both and I would rather be a fall-down plug slut!:happy:

Symptoms of the disease, when you go to bed to the sound of repetative ocean waves eminating from a portable transistor radio.
I picture myself fishing ************ rock in the pitch of dark waiting in anticipation of a screaming reel.

have a custom rod made site unseen .....because you just have to have one.
this is a symptom i believe.

My sickness is making the choice of fishing on my boat on a sunday, all day till evening,
when there is a nationally televised Oakland Raiders game on!!!
I need to put a satelite dish on my boat!

When at $3.20 a gallon you debate your wife on the econoc-car's viability as a surf rig :hee:

When you "set the hook" in your sleep or are fishing a blitz in your sleep and talking about it! :jump:

i 've been told that i reel in my sleep and recently mumbled something about a tape measure.

When we fished Cutty in July...I had to sleep on my back....against the wall! :hidin: Afterhours mumbles some pretty strange stuff! :rotfl:

wait 'till next week! no sleep for you! i'll bring fishing plugs, ear plugs and a surprise plug. :pop:

You stay on your side of the room...you "spook" me! :jump:

You're squeamish to make weekend/day off plans with anyone unless it involves fishing.

Your fishing gear takes up more room in your car than your passengers.

You drive more carefully with fishing gear in your car than with children in your car.

You only consider taking vacations that would be centered around fishing.

You clean your rods and reels in the shower more often than you clean yourself in the shower.

All your extra towels, and even bedspreads, have turned into eel rags.

You actually think family vans and station wagons are cool -- because they can fit one-piece rods.

You just can't get rid of that fish smell; it's everywhere.

You plan to name your first daughter Judith.

You've wondered, even for a short time, how the fishing would be in New Orleans.

There's nothing hotter than a man (or woman, for most of yall) who knows how to fish and knows how to fish well.

But no guy or girl will ever be cooler than fishing.

reading this WHOLE thread at 12:15 when i've got to be up at 4:20 for the turn. driving by the herring run with 2 feet of snow on the ground. keeping a rod in my car year-round. going to work sick and calling in sick to fish. jigging block for the weekend then getting broom snagged at work and thinking "fish on". getting mad at the "white rodders" because they don't know what rotation means, even though i just jumped in and they've been fishing bait in "my" spot for hours. getting out of bed to go to the bathroom at 3 a.m. and then jumping online to see if anybody else has posted since i went to bed, at 1. washing my car for the first time in months, so i can put a new fishing sticker on the back window. deciding to forgo sleep and leave now to catch the last half of the east.

Takes you seven years to graduate college, because fishing and deer hunting take up the fall semester Hunt daylight --fish dark.

Spend an entire fall eating at Dunn's corner mobile station on the card... because all of your cash has gone to plugs and eels. God I wished Capt. Don's took a mobile card back then.

Spend 15-18 hours a day on a charter boat then head to the beach to catch the tide.

Marry your girlfriend because one night at southeast light around 2am you notice she's stop casting, when you inquire as to if everything is Ok. She's reluctant to tell she's hooked herself and didn't me to have to stop fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damb bubble weed...

send away for a learn at home course.....







on how to be a plug HO.... ahhh hahahahaha :rotfl:

You wrap your own rods, and never get that last coat of finish on 'cause you need that rod tonight
You turn your own plugs so you can have the best patterns-and get to the surf and find they're hitting the one you didn't make 'cause you thought it would'nt work
You lose a job 'cause you stayed for the morning bite
You put off getting a new job because it's Fall -Thank God I married the perfect woman- she understands
People think you have substance abuse 'cause you look like this for three months :eyes:

You sit at your desk in a cube and see a scale on your chair and think it's cool.
You hear someone say skishing and think for a minute it is a good idea to dress as a seal and bob in the water :hs:
You haven't worn a nonfishing t-shirt since spring.
Getting a sore neck while driving into work because you drive the coast for an hour and stare out the passenger window looking for blitzes and birds, everyday...

You have the Receptionist at your Company Call you when she see's a bunch of birds working the water outside your office.

You can't get your a$$ to work on time....but you sure as hell can have your butt standing on a rock in the dark a half hour prior to when you think things MIGHT get going.

Blurple IS a color
Parrot is not just a bird
Schoolbus is not just something your kids ride on
Chicken Scratch is something other than poor penmanship
Wonderbread is not just for sandwiches any more.
and its no longer Gay to own something thats either Pink or Chartreuse.

You go to a friends thesis defense, put your foot up on the seat behind you and the girl next to you asks if those are fish scales on your boot... you deny that and make a mental note to keep the other foot (with dried bluefish blood on it) on the ground....

You make up stories about relatives passing away so you can have 3 days off during the fall run. (I actually did this 3 years ago. I am SO ashamed)

piemma ...you are a clever man... :rotfl:

....poor old Aunt Mary. We were very close.....

You wear your waders in Burger king (I did this last weekend in Pulaski and I wasn't the only one)

You had 5 different people send you the picture of George Bush and the striper.

You live in Boston but havent stayed in town for a weekend in 4 weeks because "things are starting to heat up"

You have night mares of watching a huge blitz but can't find a rod anywhere

Your family has mentioned having an "intervention" on more than one occasion

when a dedicated fishing vehicle isnt enough..... you cash in the $$$ you had saved for your kids education to buy a place in rhode island to be closer to the spots......

........................you dream that all your plugs are watching you...








OMG 2000 posts... i've reached the bigtime lol :btu:

WOW!!! 2000. I'm rookie. Not even at 1000

It takes you 40 minutes to select which plugs your going to put in your plug bag.

.

go through it everytime i fish

wait 'till next week! no sleep for you! i'll bring fishing plugs, ear plugs and a surprise plug. :pop:

watch out for don and his "surprise" plugs

Your dreaming of fighting the "big" one and all the eyes on your rod are falling off.

Your GF asks why the garbage disposal isn't working anymore, you look into it and it's full of beach sand after you've rinsed off your gear.

Your awake a full hour before the alarm clock rings to go fishing.

You pace up and down your driveway at 2:00am with the truck running waiting for your buddy to arrive and he's not even late yet.

Your garage stinks so bad of bait your GF wants to tear it down and rebuild a new one, by herself!

Your GF's mother no longer speaks to you because GF complains about all the hours you spend fishing and not spending time with her.

You convert the second gas tank in your truck into an eel tank and you cut some vacuum line under your hood and make an aerator for it. Truck now won't pass inspection between april and october so you drive with an expired sticker until november.

Cats in the neighborhood keep crapping in the bed of my truck. Must be all the sand?

You swipe a tropical fish from your friends saltwater aquarium to try as bait.

You try to come up with a way to fish and play guitar at the same time.

You go out for sushi with GF and when the seaweed salad arrives you inspect it for the "hatch".

You wonder if some other countries really use kittens as bait.

You rig your potato gun to shoot danny's over 1000 yards with a spool attached to it.

We are a truly sick bunch :laugha:

You've been fishing for a bunch of days straight and you're walking in a daze.. You see breaking fish and you fall into a trance staring into your plug bag, someone who's fresher walks by and tells you to just pick one and go with it, you've been fishing 6 days in a row..

You angle your backcast so you don't hook the baby you have in your backpack.
You don't drink on a weekend night because it'll affect your fishing the next morning.
Your wife is jealous of your flyrod.
Any time your wife can't find a nail clipper, she checks your plugbag.
The wife is reluctant to get into your truck because she's scares s***less of fish hooks.
You start to like the taste of bunker rubbing off on your sandwich.
You get excited when the July forecast is overcast and windy.
You cut that long, white hair from your dog's tail to use for fly tying.

You're a contractor, and your GF hires your foreman to build the deck of her dreams this summer, cause she just knows..........

who's payin' you or her?

Oh I WILL PAY, trust me.... she'll write a check tho, in my blood

thought so.......:bl:

Dead of the winter in a snowstorm... have aready reorganized 3 times over, respooled with 50 # powerpro.... See a city plow coming by and throw a Kastmaster at it and lock up and listen to the vs 200 sing like a canary as the plow takes off like a 50 pounder

Man I'm getting jittery.... Is it may yet??????????????????

When your GF askes for more quality time with her, you take her out for a 'pleasure cruise' around the harbor and think you could get away with bringing your rods 'just in case' then once on the boat start the 8mile run to the tip of monomoy... rationalizing like an alcholic looking for his next drink that she'll never figure it out. Even when she is staring at you with the all knowing eyes...

By the time March rolls around, you actually think you're starting to like Charlie Moore -- he's catching fish -- any fish.

You plan a Sunday trip to the tackle shop, as if it would be open now.

You can't wait for the lake to thaw so you can practice getting good action on all your plugs.

You pick a custom rod over a KitchenAid mixer for your Christmas present.

You miss the rank smell and utter mess in your vehicle, and can't wait for the weather to warm up to see if the smell will come back.

You buy ridiculous amounts of hooks, weights, etc., that you will inevitably lose way before the season starts.

I can't wait!!! :drool:

You justify going fishing while your significant other is justifying kicking your sorry arse out of the house, yet you still go...:behead:

When your buddy is moving and they are shopping for a futon.. his wife says... to call me to tell me it's just in case I get thrown out of the house, I'll have a place to crash.... :D
good friends know EVEN when they dont fish....

to go fishing :hihi:

Meeting a nice chick and just knowing that she wont make it to July :devil:

tonight i realized that i compare almost everything to fishing...
"that was almost as fun as fishing"
and then the rare "as fun as fishing"

you take partial payment for a truck in custom wood :hihi: ......

man, that's sick :hihi:

when you goto school one morning, you haven't slept a wink and your trying to tell your best friend about the one time that you caught your biggest fish. and they're standing there saying what the hell you talking about.. and your response is ' i haven't slept all night, because i was busy remembering what fishing is like'

yeah, i live in a beachy town and yet not one of my guy friends which is practically all of my friends, know the the heck i'm talking about or how to fish..

You roll outta the truck hike on your dry top, grab your bag and your rod, you wade out, you forgot your waders, its sunday you've been parked on the beach since friday after work.... its November..

thought I'ld dig this one out of the grave...by far the funniest thread of all time

you replaced the pull chain smily face your wife put on the celling fan over the dinning table with an old Atoms junior swimmer,,,blue and white of course,,,

You no longer have to choose smileys from the pictures......you actually know what text to type so they work.

You can't leave the house unless somewhere on your person, clothing, jewelry or skin is an image of a fish.

When you are at a sporting event and they sing "God Bless America" and they get to the part where they sing-

"to the ocean, white with foam"

.... and you think to yourself, That's a good place to catch stripers!

when having a day off from work and all you can do is check s-b.com every 30min.man I need to get a life.:bsod:

when you have to decide between naked women and big bass as to what gets your heart pounding more

I think this is my all time favorite thread. There are hundreds of very funny symptoms of the disease in here...:rotf2:

You're wife angrily asks why you seem to have a fishing buddy nearby, no matter where you go for vacation.
Wife is afraid to go into the basement or half the garage for fear of treble hook-adorned plugs.
You get chewed out for plugs stuck in curtains, living room rug, and baby's car seat.
Dead animal parts and fly-tying gear on kitchen counter.
Soup pot of live eels in fridge takes wife by surprise.
You never look at the calendar, but have tide tables at work, in the car, on the computer desk, on the fridge, and on the nightstand next to the bed.
Wife has to sit in the back seat, because your fishing gear's in the front passenger seat.
Coworkers think you have a drinking problem because you come in red-eyed and tired every morning.

payed parking tickets in advance @ the police station telling them I be back there tomorrow so here's the money now !!

You see gulls circling and you look for fish breaking, but you're in a Micky D's parkinglot. You wake up at 2 AM because it's "time". It's February. You knowthat and start thinking about which plugs to build next.

Now when you leave the house it sounds like your going to Justice League Headquarters

"I'm heading out with Nightfighter, Sluggoslinger, and The Specialist to see if we can Track down Steelhead, Clammer, and the diabolical Professor Moriarty......Quick Young Salt, to the Bass-Mobile"

It's 24 degrees out and my surf gear is still in the Tahoe...

You tell yourself you not going to buy another plug, then log on to Ebay and start bidding on more stuff you "need".

You tell your buddies your done fishing for the year, only to call them back 2 hours later to find out what time to meet up in the AM the next day.

You tell the wife you can't take any time off to go on vacation because you need to save your days for good tides.

You convince yourself you need another backup rod for the 9 you already have marked as "backup".

You stuff 35 plugs in your Aquaskinz bag and fish the same three all night.

You convince yourself that you will eventually use the 30 yellow bombers you bought and it was a good investment.
Yup, that about sums it up.

Your son would rather drive with mom because your truck stanks like bad fish.

You see gulls circling and you look for fish breaking, but you're in a Micky D's parkinglot. You wake up at 2 AM because it's "time". It's February. You knowthat and start thinking about which plugs to build next.

I drive past he city landfill every day on the way to and from work. I think the same thing. Somedays i will just make the wrong turn and head to RI after work, its only 170 miles round trip.

You come home on friday night from a vigorous week's vacation in Vegas, and you know the tides and marine forecast for sat morning.

Your eyes water when you winterize the boat.(because it's dec. 12th and subzero wind is whipping at your face)

When your daughter plays with Barbie and Ken, and Barbie's friends come over to visit, the answer to "where's Ken?" is always "out fishing."

When your daughter plays with Barbie and Ken, and Barbie's friends come over to visit, the answer to "where's Ken?" is always "out fishing."



:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao: :rotflmao: Thats was SOOOOOO good :bl:

:^)

And true, believe it or not!

Awesome thread! This should be filed with the "best ever"

When you daughter Writes a song about you....to the tune of "Real Men Of Genius" called Mr. Over-Obssesive Fisherman....you'll have to ask her to sing it to you if you ever meet her, its actually pretty friggin funny :hihi:

Thank god Barbie and Ken's baby likes to fish too, as evidenced by my avatar.

I took her out in the boat last Saturday to a local freshwater spot. Fishing was horrible, though we had a blast. Halfway through the trip, she says, "Daddy, let's have a contest. Most fish and biggest fish wins." "What's the Prize?" I asked. "Three fishing lures," she replies. I (arrogantly) say, "so, how do you expect to buy me six fishing lures? That's quite a bit of money!". She goes, "don't worry, daddy, I'm going to catch the most ANNNND the biggest." I, of course, crack up and say, "ooookayy, that's a lot of extra chores if you don't!"

Three hours, and an amazing grind by a 7 year old in misty 55 degree conditions later, the contest stands 3-2 in her favor, with lunker award up for furious debate. She caught two fish by simply employing the figure 8 technique known to Pike fishermen everywhere, and one other on a long cast and retrieve with her "big girl" fishing pole. (6'6" spinning rod).

I made good on the bet this last Sunday at Bass Pro Shops. 50 bucks later she'd chosen a nice topwater jerk bait in a purple color, a red balsa crankbait, a rainbow trout pattern rapala jerk bait, and three rapala crankbaits. "Can I use those Christina?" I asked.
"Uh, well, only if you're fishing with ME!" she replies.

At least it's now certain she's a Luccini kid.

When you realize you are probably the only nit wit on the road in the state towing a boat at 12:30 am in late Nov. in a snow shower. Finally took my boat home from work last nite. Plugs, no need to go there.

You find you must unsubscribe from this thread in order to get anything done...because the email updates trigger you to start re-reading them all again and again and laughing each time.

It's when you have a striped bass tattoo. It's when you have striped bass underwear. It's when you have Danny plugs hanging in various locations all around your apartment, condo or home. It's when no matter what you are talking about it always comes back to some related element of striper fishing. My girlfriend claims that I can be talking about nucular physics and somehow equate it to bass fishing. It's when you schedule your vacations around the new moons in may, june and october. It's when you........

when this convo occurs

GF: where are you going? its 2:30am

ME: going to watch TV, I cant sleep

GF: how come?

ME: its that fish from last night. I cant figure out if it was my knot, my leader, i dont know i cant stop thinking about it.

GF: Oh my God, you are rediculous

you call the foot dr to cut off your little toe cause after 3 hrs in your waders standing in the water it starts bothering you real bad.tell your family if someones calls and tells you they found me dead on the beach that means i caught and released a 50 lbs and had the big one.have milk crates full of plugs and tackle all over garage,downstairs family room filled with family fishing pics along with rod rack i built .measure inside of suv your buying to see if it will fit your 1 piece rod.

When you get voice mails that start with, "I know your probably out fishing but..."

when your girlfriend walks past the computer and your on a thread looking at plugs and all she says is "you want that one huh?"

when you walk in you're apartment at 4am and your roommate and his trashed buddies see you with all your gear and just give you the most confused looked ever.

when anyone tries to use your shower and its filled with gear, there is also gear/plugs in every room including the bathroom.

when you turn down expensive dinners from you're boss only to have two 99 cent junior whoopers so you can get the water sooner.

when you tell your boat friends you 'have to work' and can't make it out with them, only to go rock hopping.

when your girlfriend knows that when she wants Perry's ice cream in wareham she just has to ask if I need to go to M&D's.

when your girlfriend decides she wants to doodle pictures of you at breakfast this is what shes comes up with.

the list goes on...
p.s. I like st. croix rods, i don't know where she got this from :rollem:

when your girlfriend walks past the computer and your on a thread looking at plugs and...


......you bring up the hustler.com web page quickly to cover what you are really looking at. :hihi:

that reading this thread makes you know that you are not alone and therefore nothing is wrong with you...

when the last five books you've read cover-to-cover and
plan on reading again-and-again are on the "top ten" of the Striper List.
let's not forget the new Zeno, Nolan, and Coleman books for THIS winter.

when the wiff FINALLY understands the difference between the New and Full,
and why family plans/vacays NEED to revolve around them.

when the 4yo daughter says, "Dadda, are stripers more important than me and Mommy?"

when you start counting stripers to get to sleep instead of sexy Swimsuit models

when you draw stripers everywhere you go,,,,,,,,,,,,
on the beach,
on the iron,
on the porta-john's at work,
on XMAS cards,
and sign them at the bottom~~ MY FATT COW!!

Your live eels freeze solid in a mesh bag and you must remember to bring them in a cooler next time so they will stay warm.

You're at work reeling in your string-line and it gets caught on the foot of your ladder and for a split second you think you've got a FISH ON!

The only time you get on a bike is to chase fish.

this thread should be STEP 1 in the 12 step program of the offseason striper addict...

How bout me telling my recruiter, who in this economy found me a job in boston ( i live in providence) that I wasn't interested because I needed to be closer to the RI coast

or convincing myself that I will forever be a Rhode Islander because I want to fish here for the rest of my life...im 28.

having a "secret" savings account for my fishing gear

mentioning to my GF of 7 years that I can't get married between the months of may - nov? and if she'd think it would be "cool" to get married on Cuttyhunk because of the "scenery"?

is it april yet?

You leave your corporate job of 23 years to chase fish with a camera full time.

If I'm not eyeballing fish I trying to yank them out of the water on light tackle.

I sometimes think I AM A FISH!

When you live 9 miles from work but you drive 24 because you have to check out the Matt. river , WEWE river, onset bay ,canal on your way to and from work, thank God gas$$ has gone down. Somehow the canal always seems to be on the way to everywhere . Believe me living on the coast is a curse during the winter.

When you know that sitting in a crappy computer chair will hurt your back and you watch youtube for 2 hours, then go the the SWE website and buy crap because you are done fishing for the year. You tell yourself amd your girlfriend your not going to by any fishing stuff during the "offSeason" and you bought 3 books, 2 reels and a mess of plugs that you MUST have, but will only be thrown on 2 trips to block island. The toughest decision im having at the moment is whether to hit BI or the canal around the 1st new moon in june.

Tonight I heard Burl Ives singing 'Silver and Gold'.
I thought of Van Staal reels.

When you stop at every single body of water, and wonder if it would be possible to secretly stock it with a few schoolies in hopes of producing a great striper spot in 8 years.

When you stop at every single body of water, and wonder if it would be possible to secretly stock it with a few schoolies in hopes of producing a great striper spot in 8 years.

Lake Champlain would be nice, please do

You tell your wife for the tenth thousand time your grabbin the girls an headin out...after awhile she asks your budd if I've got some girlfriends on the side:laughs:

You have been to the Vineyard, Block Island and the cape and have no clue where the family swimming beaches are.

"Yeah Honey people swim at Squibnocket all the time....we just arrived before everyone else"

The message on my cell phone says, "fish on, lines tight, I'll get back to ya!"