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.
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.
stop it! your making me feel like I MIGHT have a problem..
) The ferry guy kindly asked me to "refrain from fishing on the boat" but I had a decent crowd of spectators around.
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