My Wife Always Laughs

[Mobasser]

My wife always laughs when I run water in the bathtub or kitchen sink and test the action of a new worm or jig.          She laughs when I change my line too much, or choose a certain glitter soft plastic bait over many others.                                                  She'll snicker when I explain my scientific approach to bass fishing.                She'll snicker again when I  need to stop by the tackle shop, knowing that I don't really need anything.                When I ask her why she laughs at these things she says:" Fishing is your hobby. You should just relax with your hobby and enjoy it. Don't get so consumed with it that you don't have fun anymore".                                           After thinking about it for a while, I realized my wife is right. It's easy to overthink everything, and lose track of why you started fishing to begin with.                                           You can be a serious fisherman, and have fun too.

[T-Billy]

I'm heading toward full circle. My fishing has been getting more simplified the last couple years. I'm mostly just running with a handful of confidence baits, and it's literally paying off big. Numbers are good, and average size is up compared to when I was throwing more stuff and trying to be more diversified.

 I don't sweat colors much anymore either. Gimme some sort of shad looking color, green punkin, and black/blue when it gets dirty, and I'm good to go.

[Cbump]

33 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

My wife always laughs when I run water in the bathtub or kitchen sink and test the action of a new worm or jig.          She laughs when I change my line too much, or choose a certain glitter soft plastic bait over many others.                                                  She'll snicker when I explain my scientific approach to bass fishing.                She'll snicker again when I  need to stop by the tackle shop, knowing that I don't really need anything.                When I ask her why she laughs at these things she says:" Fishing is your hobby. You should just relax with your hobby and enjoy it. Don't get so consumed with it that you don't have fun anymore".                                           After thinking about it for a while, I realized my wife is right. It's easy to overthink everything, and lose track of why you started fishing to begin with.                                           You can be a serious fisherman, and have fun too.

Everything you described is exactly what makes It fun. 

[Bird]

Gotta make the wife laugh.

Something I don't care for is FB and the wife is always putting my fish pics up or our fishing trips.

She's very active in the community and I'm an out of sight out of mind kinda guy....... guess there's a balance. Lol

[Koz]

You test baits in the bathtub?

 

That would be the LAST place I would want to have a treble hook accident!

[newapti5]

4 hours ago, Bird said:

Something I don't care for is FB and the wife is always putting my fish pics up or our fishing trips.

 

Having an active FB account would make selling your used tackle on Marketplace much easier. I have learnt that the hard way, and now I have to post my stuff under her account. 

[GRiver]

11 hours ago, Mobasser said:

It's easy to overthink everything, and lose track of why you started fishing to begin with.                                           You can be a serious fisherman, and have fun too.

I’ve finally learned that a few years ago.

Sometimes it’s not about the catching….it’s about the fishing.

[Clumsy fisherman]

I glad I read this thread. I need to take fewer lures with me on my fishing excursions. I have enough plastics to sink a kayak, if I had one.

[LrgmouthShad]

Your wife is RIGHT

 

My best day this season, I brought one rod and a dozen jigs. Nothing else. Why? With the situation I was in that weekend, I could choose to spend more time rigging, more time sleeping, or more time fishing. I chose sleep and fishing. It was late at night prepping for the next day after getting chores done. I decided that I was just going to make sure one rod was good to go, and then get sleep, and get on the water the next day. On the water, I simply focused on finding the fish. I kept it very simple
 

I’ll post more about this day later but caught 4 for 19lbs including one over 7 and one over 6

[swhit140]

I always laugh at my wife when I show her how much fishing tackle some people on the internet have in their boat/tackle room.

Then she doesn't make a comment of what I own.. ?

[Fishlegs]

I laugh if my wife asks whether she should wear these shoes with that purse, or this purse with those shoes. I usually say, "Does it really matter that much?"

 

My wife laughs when I'm trying to decide if I need to throw a watermelon worm vs a watermelon red worm. She says, "Does it really matter that much?" Seems fair.

[Bankc]

I mean, if you enjoy obsessing over things, then why not?  A lot of people love doing research and learning all of those tiny details and figuring out how all of the pieces fit.  That can be part of the hobby too.  

But your wife is right in that the whole point of any hobby is make your life rich and your bank account poor.  It's easy to get lost in the pursuit of getting better in a hobby and lose sight of what drew you to it in the first place.  And it's good to step back every once in a while and take stock of where you're at.  A little self awareness through reflection never hurts.  

[FishTank]

I took my wife to Cabelas once. I was looking for a backpack for bank fishing.  A guy working there asked her if she needed help.  She responded by saying,  "Yes. My husband is looking for a worm purse."  Last time I took her willingly. 

 

Around my house my tackle bags are all called worm purses. I will never live it down.  Wives,  what are you going to do? 

[JediAmoeba]

My wife doesn't laugh - she shakes her head and tells me I have mental problems.

 

I like to night fish and my in-laws can't believe I would be out fishing at night. My wife tells them how ridiculous if a person I am for getting up at 2 am to go fishing for 3 or 4 hours before work...

[A-Jay]

18 hours ago, Mobasser said:

My wife always laughs when I run water in the bathtub or kitchen sink and test the action of a new worm or jig.          She laughs when I change my line too much, or choose a certain glitter soft plastic bait over many others.                                                  She'll snicker when I explain my scientific approach to bass fishing.                She'll snicker again when I  need to stop by the tackle shop, knowing that I don't really need anything.                When I ask her why she laughs at these things she says:" Fishing is your hobby. You should just relax with your hobby and enjoy it. Don't get so consumed with it that you don't have fun anymore".                                           After thinking about it for a while, I realized my wife is right. It's easy to overthink everything, and lose track of why you started fishing to begin with.                                           You can be a serious fisherman, and have fun too.

Share what the total MSRP of all your gear actually is, and be honest.

Smiles turned up side down. 

?

A-Jay

 

[jminer79]

Mine doesnt want to talk about it EVER. When I do, she rolls her eyes and gets ticked. If she knew how much I've spent on molds, colorant, plastisol, flake, poles, reels........I probably not have a wife LMFAO!!!!!!

[Swamp Girl]

I bought a LOT of lures this winter and am prepared to greatly complicate my fishing, but I think this shall pass as I settle into some lures the bass like. My problem is I last fishing for LMB a half century ago and there are sooooooooo many new lures and techniques to try. 

[Mobasser]

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Share what the total MSRP of all your gear actually is, and be honest.

Smiles turned up side down. 

?

A-Jay

 

A-Jay, I'm lucky I have her. She's understanding about all this fishing stuff.

[A-Jay]

19 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

A-Jay, I'm lucky I have her. She's understanding about all this fishing stuff.

Me too - I was just having some fun.

A-Jay

[the reel ess]

19 hours ago, Mobasser said:

She laughs when I change my line too much, or choose a certain glitter soft plastic bait over many others.

You tell her there's science behind this and you need all the glitters.

[JediAmoeba]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Share what the total MSRP of all your gear actually is, and be honest.

Smiles turned up side down. 

?

A-Jay

 

Call a good divorce attorney first.

[jminer79]

14 minutes ago, the reel ess said:

You tell her there's science behind this and you need all the glitters.

TRUTH!!!!! PREACH IT HAHAHAHAHA.

[jminer79]

9 minutes ago, jminer79 said:

TRUTH!!!!! PREACH IT HAHAHAHAHA.

And it's not glitter for us guys....its FLAKE. Makes it sound more manly....I think.....

[KP Duty]

All my tackle resides in the spare bedroom.  When I'm in there messing around and the door opens, I hear "Are you playing with your lures?".  Yep!

[MN Fisher]

7 hours ago, swhit140 said:

I always laugh at my wife when I show her how much fishing tackle some people on the internet have in their boat/tackle room.

Then she doesn't make a comment of what I own.. ?

Wife asked me, "Don't you have enough rods/reels?"

Then I showed her a pic of @A-Jay's rod locker on his Lund...she shut up pretty quick.

 

32 minutes ago, KP Duty said:

All my tackle resides in the spare bedroom.  When I'm in there messing around and the door opens, I hear "Are you playing with your lures?".  Yep!

Wife has actually said to me, "Why don't you go downstairs and play with your tackle."

 

Wait....WHAT!?