Symptoms of the disease - Lets here them.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

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.

[reelecstasy]

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

[ThrowingTimber]

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 Dad Fisherman]

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.

[Squibby17]

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.

[thefishingfreak]

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 }