Symptoms of the disease - Lets here them.

[Bass Babe]

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.

[hunan]

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.

[SBASS1]

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...