You know you're addicted to fishing when.......

[walleyechaser]

you close the bar the night before and are excited to wake up 3 hours later to go fishing.


I thought this might be a fun thread to see how addicted we all are.

[OTIS]

After 30 minutes of sleep you get dragged to a truck because you're still not able to walk.  And you "come to" on a rock in the middle of Salmon River puking up orange juice to the point where everyone downstream is running out of the river to avoid your chum slick.  Several minutes later you're yelling "Fish on!"  That day still hurts.

[flockshot]

get in the car at 2 am to make the drive up to the pere marquette in febuary to catch one winter stealhead....after several hours on the river and no fish..you drive all the way back home, cold, wet , sick and planning to do it again on your next day off.

[pinche]

Last friday I had three buddies over to fish. We stayed up till 3:30 am drinking after finishing off a 6 pack of bass ale, a 12 pack of bud light, a 12 pack of miller light and a fifth of jager 2 of us got up at 6:30 to fish. I could barley see out of one eye and couldnt stand up straight   but was out fishing. those are good times Glad I got up because thats when I cought the tourney leading crappie   look at my pic I look a little wasted

[bwalleye]

you leave the milk on the counter to make room for the nightcrawlers in the refrigerator

[fishingonly2002]

when you drop out of middle school cause you miss so many days because your out fishing. haha hell yeah.

~Neal

[blaque]

same page as bwalleye.........When your vegetable crisper drawer has more bait in it than lettuce. And when your more worried about your egg sacs picking up the scent of onion in the refrigerator instead of vice versa.

[OTIS]

you leave the milk on the counter to make room for the nightcrawlers in the refrigerator

Ya, that's one thing that the wife still hasn't gotten used to yet...

[walleyechaser]

Ya, that's one thing that the wife still hasn't gotten used to yet...

Extra fridge in the garage solves that one.  Stocked with beer and bait.

I got another one :  when you fish in 28 degree weather (on the boat) and see all forms of precipitation first rain then hail then snow and you are dealing with 30 MPH wind.  But the crappies were biting good that day.

[blaque]

(speaking for the girlfriend here) when ya take an x-rap treble right between the toes past the barb.........cuz the boyfriend (me) left the three rigged rods on the floor and your walking around barefoot trying to clean up the boat (girlfriend)..........bolt cut the x-rap off the hook thats embedded in between the toes.......find the nearest doctor in Oneida........have it yanked, and head back to the launch to get out and finish what we started. lol

[Eye Hunter]

when you run your line out the door of the house, over the grass out to the dock, bait a hook with a golden shiner and a float, toss it in the river then go back to the house and fasten a bell on the tip of the rod, sit back and watch the NBA finals. 

[fishingonly2002]

when you run your line out the door of the house, over the grass out to the dock, bait a hook with a golden shiner and a float, toss it in the river then go back to the house and fasten a bell on the tip of the rod, sit back and watch the NBA finals. 

hahahaa been there done that. produced some great fish that way too.

~Neal

[Pikeguy]

Where's the beer?

Next to the milk.....er...uh I mean crawlers

[fishryc]

When you keep buying rods and reels even though you have more in your garage than Gander Mountain does on their shelves. I just bought two noodle rods which brought my collection somewhere into the mid to high 30's as far as count goes; and thats for open water only- no ice rods included!

[OTIS]

I got another one :  when you fish in 28 degree weather (on the boat) and see all forms of precipitation first rain then hail then snow and you are dealing with 30 MPH wind.  But the crappies were biting good that day.

Been there.  We used to fish the last week of walleye season in March out of a boat if the barge canal was open.  We'd be in the boat catching eyes watching people a couple hundred yards away ice fishing.


As a kid fishing equipment didn't come cheep, so every year we would reverse the line on our reels.  It was a three kid process.  One kid would take the end of the line and walk down the sidewalk until all the line was out  while a second kid held the rod.  A third kid would ride the pole from one end of the line to the other on his bike, and then the line could be reeled in.  One time a neighbor pulled out of their driveway and the line caught on their bumper, man what a mess.