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...

when you
 

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......

when asleep
 

........................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

go through it everytime i fish

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....

You just don`t care anymore except
 

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..