1. You call your boat Sweetheart and your wife Skeeter.
2. You love the smell of chopped bluegills in the morning, smells like victory
3. Your bass fishing buddies show you pics of their big fish and you say " that about the right size I like to use for bait"
4. Your fishin buddies are named Bluegill, Gato, and stinkbait
5. You tie your toddler sons shoes in a Palomar knot so that he learns early..kidding
6. You have a pic of a trophy winter cat on your computer home screen

How do you guys know your a true catfisherman?

When you come home smelling like the bait you used all day

1.got a fishin buddy named jimmy .( every fisherman is required to have one )
2.key words like "cat" "fish""boat" "pole" get you the stink eye from your ol lady
3. You constantly annoy your ol lady with fishin stories she doesn't want to hear
4. Dream and cry of the big ones that broke the surface but still got away
5. Show people pics of your pb over and over and over lol

13. Spent more time studying catfish than studied in school...if only they handed out Degrees in catfishing
14. Name your black lab Mercury and your cat Yamaha.

#15 buy your wife a shad net for X'mas

Asking the ol lady if she wants to smell your finger

When you sacrifice the month of August fishing time to tear your boat completely apart to get rid of every piece of carpet in your boat to make it easier to wash out slime and shad scales.

you picked a good month...August is almost too hot to fish...I said almost

Haha this has got me rolling keep it goin

Your rain suit is your most expensive piece of clothing

You wonder how much a fish tank to house your next trophy cat would cost ...

Get your wife a c3 6500 for Christmas? She really needs her own cause the other 10, well, those are mine

That's why I'm heading out this evening after work.

Your neighbors who live down wind of your house wants to know why your boat smells like cheese.
You go to Academy and open the stink bait just to see if it smells enough.
The buzzards show up around 3:00 to eat the catfish you just cleaned. (True story, one year we had a buzzard show up across the road where I throw my catfish guts and bones every Sat. about 3:00.)

If you are in such a hurry to get bait and head to the lake that you forget to pick up your wife at work and when you get home to hook up the boat you are meet in the driveway by your oldest daughter.Dad you left mom at work!! And you send that daughter to pick her up.

The scales man. It's all about the scales.

damn! Serious catfisherman right there! <<your wife when u get home

Lol!!!

When your so good at throwing a cast net, you can nail a swimming watersnake with it from 20 ft away... Lol!!!



Or when you enjoy watchin turtles take 20 foot plunges.... ( click on pic to watch vid )


Or when you make your son run a mile down an old farm road for being grumpy on the way to a fishing trip... LMAO!!!!! ( click on pic to watch vid )

@ optimus prime the turtle part for sure I hate it when they end up on my line

You can bait a hook and eat a sandwich at the same time, and then lick your fingers after you are through.

When you drink beer out of the fish cooler.
Put a dip in with shad hands.

When your garage smells like shad all winter long and your wife doesn't say a thing.

Your pants stand up at the end of the day, just like they were starched
Your boat mechanic cusses you for stinkin up his whole shop when in for repairs.
When the ladies at sonic, stripes,or the beer barn squint and cringe and ask if you been fishing.

When you mount a 1/4 dragster motor directly to a drive shaft, just so you can get to your holes faster.

YES.. And when your eating on the boat and you see scales in your food and you keep eating it anyways

Come on Prime there is no such thang as a "good" time to work on the boat......Texas sun is getting to ya...Hell with cleaning let's fish!!!

Ok Sam...

catfish fin to the side... Prime.. Man down

Hang in there pardner!!!!

We were coming back from fishing Kerr lake. I had a fancy bass lure I found hanging on my mirror in the cab of the truck... well somehow stuff got placed on the dash and I had to swerve...here comes stuff flying my way I reached to stop the mess.... nice treble hook imbedded deep in my thumb in rush hour traffic I drove for a few miles with my thumb attached to the lure hung up on vrious nick-nacks I had hanging off the mirror.....Regan almost passed out from the blood flying and seeing the hook....I pulled in the carwash and hollered get the pliers and needle nose....both covered in shad goo he said you need an emergency room..... I said clean the pliers with the 1st aid kit from the boat.....I put the pliers on the shaft back up a little then turned it and pulled it trough the skin....I said cut it with the needle nose and he had to go sit down getting dizzy.... so I had to cut it and pull it back through on the side of the road at the carwash.....and NO there will never be any bass lures or hooks of any kind on the rear view mirror I will see if he still has the photo of it buried..

you get a catfish tattoo to represent each member of your family..

You have the heads off the biggest flatheads you've caught hanging from your front porch.

boil and bleach the flathead skulls out and superglue em back together. makes an awesome skull mount

in my shop i have 3 500 gal tanks setup with full filtration systems, temp regs and aereators. one for live gills, bullheads and shad, one for holding catfish, the other is for minnows. a 330lb digital scale and a freezer full of fresh shad and carp....

Sounds like a plan there. Might have to add some deer antlers to it.

...When as a teenager you skip a two a day football practice to go hit a pond you just heard had giants in it knowing there is a good chance you will get shot at if you get caught....and you are the QB so no way of skipping un-noticed

...And you talk the head coaches son into going with you

...And you brought back a 20 pounder on a stringer hoping that would get sympathy from him so he wouldn't make you run till you throw up

...Then later that weekend that same coach talks you into taking him knowing he may get shot at if you get caught.

Just get me the ball Anchorman....


Yeah!!!!

When you 5 year old laughs at bass fishermen's personal best photos.

When you have had more than one "unfortunate chum accidents".

You use your "bait knife" to stir the drink you just made and don't think twice...

You secretly take pictures of the next guys Lowrance chart with a gopro to find the honey hole

After baiting with old Catfish Charlie dough bait you notice the red finger prints on your bologna sandwith.