I'm about as gung-ho as they get....and I am crazy! Not stupid. I will try to live to fish another day. I have fished in 35 degrees raining, windy, and hail....lightning? Nope. Wait it out.

I do "1" every time I leave Joe Pool. I pass by the new lake they are making in Midlothian. I have even taken my jeep out there and drove around the purposed lake and marked stuff on my GPS. Getting ready for 2021. Lol.

You guys are absolutely nutz. I'm glad I'm not messed up like that. Denial is first hurdle to overcome.....work in progress!!

I've fished with you.....you are worse. Haha.

You keep fishing logs for years with pictures drawn on them and notes on how and where fish were caught how the weather was etc.
Then you go back 20 years later and read over them for FUN.
Also you are out on Fork fishing with a buddy and you point to a tree and say "Man I caught a 6 lber on a jig right on that tree!" And he says, "When was that, last week?" And you say, "No, I believe it was in 95."

spend m-f planning your s-s fishing.

When people introduce you as they're fisherman friend instead of whatever you do for a living.

you judge how nice a truck is by how good it would look pulling your boat.

you hear a bump in the night at home and the first thing you check is your boat/gear

you have ever made a normal person uncomfortable because they made the mistake of asking "so like, what to these bass things eat" by responding with a 10 minute lecture on seasonal movement, water clarity, dominant forage and seasonal movement of forage.

When you pull up to a tournament to find out your cranking battery is dead and fish the tournament anyways with just your trolling motor.

I just finished transcribing 20 years of hand written fishing logs into a 60+ page Word document. Rereading them actually brought back memories long forgotten.

Really enjoy this post. Every time I go over the list l LMAO. My wife says your quote at the bottom of your post fits me perfectly. Wants to use it when l "check out".(no time soon,l hope). Just wanted to know who gets the credit.

Go to Sugar for 3 months straight, come home to a divorce and than move to a private bass lake. Real talk...

When you tell your partner "look all your cows are laying down"

Some Great stuff here!!
Allen- that would be one heck of a fishing log to read!! Wish I could dedicate myself to keeping a good log!
pwarren- yep I've done that before!!
Mike- yep I've been introduced as "hey this is Rudy, he likes to fish"
Steez- yep that new lake should be AWESOME!! I may or may not have been saving google images of creek channels!! :-)

Mostly I relate to #1!! Every fallen down tree, a pile of rocks, anything on the side of the road that looks "fishy" if it was underwater!!

I was fishing a tournament on fork about 15 years ago and took out my big motor on a stump at about 8:30 AM. Forward was toast but reverse gear worked, so I crossed Fork in reverse to get to the cove near the Minnow Bucket(where we had launched). Dropped the trolling motor and fished the rest of the day in those coves. Ended up in second. My $100 (small club) winnings paid about 10% of the cost to repair the big motor.

Another time, first thing in the morning I spun my hub just as I got to the car bridge on Monticello. Could only slow idle. It is a very long trip to slow idle up to Smith Creek. Had to leave an hour early to make sure I got back for weigh-in on time.

I also found out the night before a tournament on Bob Sandlin that my trolling motor was toast. Still fished the tournament but did not fare well. That was harder to overcome (for fishing) than the big motor problems.

When you have more rods and reels than your wife has shoes......