I am 37 and it is starting to get bad. I am trim and tall and in good shape. However I am starting to do Core exercises as I do not want major back problems!

To everyone out there with bad backs, I feel your pain. I wish you all the best.

ended up with a bulged disk at age 29 afterrunning cedar creek like a wild man all day in 5 ft waves. chiropractor went ahead and ruptured them for me a few months later trying to "get me back in line". 2 surgeries followed that in the following months (by a doctor who moved out of state a 2 months after my last surgery.) i then went to the texas back institute and visited with them to begin a new relationship. im 35 now and have lots of back problems still, but have not gone back under the knife.

bad back at 38... my wife says I walk like a penguin when it flares up and my friends call me Paw Paw. This getting old s**t sucks.

I have a compression fracture @ L-3.
Herniated disc @ L4-5 that was operated on back in 1995, I was 24 years old. Still have hardware in place.
Man do I hurt when the weather changes, especially when it gets cold and rainy. My wife says that I turn into a grouch.
My sympathy to all those out there dealing with back pain.
I know right where your coming from.

Count me in,had a disk taken out in the 80`s and still fishing.Just carrie a bottle of Advil in boat plus the truck and one at work. 57 with my first knee injury this year .

one ruptured disc, one heriated disc. knees shot, hurt most of the time. this is not from fishing, just life, 51 now have had problems for 20 years.

That would be me. I have been doing physical therapy 3 days a week that helps. Just a chronic problem that I have and will always have I suppose. I am 53.

I had to give up fishing and my boat about 5 years ago because of 2 heriated disc. Had surgery and last year was able to get a new boat and get back at it again. I still have to watch what I do and have trouble fishing more then a couple days in a row.

Back, Within the last year. Currently re-arranging trolling motor pedal to help solve the back pains after a day on the water.

whittled on twice.hurt myself 2 weeks ago.laid up last week. got my D.O. to pop me back in.I will not use a chiroprator. Not a 100% yet but getting close. wanted to fish the BPS open this weekend.But the wife might raise her eye brows on that.I have a new jig color I wanted to throw.

Yep, for about 20 years now.

back is good,but when i fish my neck starts to hurt between my sholder blades.after fishing i'm fine.

i'm 40 be 41 in jan.

when it comes to fishin,..strong like bull - smart like cow.