Am I really crazy like she says I am?

[Snag]

Ok, please stick up for me on this one guys. My girlfriend thinks I need to see a shrink because I tie on plastics and work them in the bath tub for practice to get the action down. Am I really nuts or is this a normal practice like I tell her it is? Dear god, I must be addicted lol....

Needing help in Ohio, ;D

Snag

[GamblerFL]

I have fished the pool many times....never had a hit yet!!!!!

[abelfisher]

When I wa a young boy, I used to go out into my front yard and practice my casting.  One day, someone drove up, stopped, rolled down his window and said" Hey, the fish are biting on 7th street!" lol  ;D ;D

[Raul]

Since when we fishermen have even a little bit of sanity ? nobody in his right mind is going to be in the middle of the winter with subzero temperatures, freezing his butt trying to catch something through a hole in the ice or getting cooked under the blazing sun in the middle of the summer having his brains roasted at 110  ;D, which is a perfectly normal behavior for us.

[Nick.Culver]

Don't worry my mom says the same thing about me. Plus I always take my fishing rods when I go to my aunt and uncles. To see how my cranks and other lures work in their pool. Just tell your girlfriend about Takahiro and his pool. He built one just to practice working his lures. Now that be you. Atleast you haven't gone so far as to buy a pool  to practice in yet. LOL

[Nick_Barr]

:)Everybody i know thinks i a a bassoholic i eat drink and sleep bass fishing. i have practiced in my jacuzzi before.

[earthworm77]

Pool and jacuzzi are acceptable tub is out unless it is jetted, sorry, dude, your girlfriend might be right on the money!

[squid]

Snag,

My question to you is...Are you sitting on the toilet when you are doing this?....lol  Then you might be a redneck...lol

[Sam]

Nope, you are not crazy. Zell Rowland told the participants at the Richmond, Virginia Bassmaster University this past weekend to test your lures in the bathtub, especillay the suspended ones to make sure they are suspending correctly.

[Raul]

Snag,

My question to you is...Are you sitting on the toilet when you are doing this?....lol Then you might be a redneck...lol

No sir I do not, when you gotta go to where the king goes by himself I always have my BPS catalog at hand, you have plenty of time to look at all the cool stuff.  

[pigpounder]

Nah your not crazy,I've done the same thing and I know that there is nothing wrong with me, with me, with me with me  :-/

[Fisher of Men]

I've never cast a lure in my tub, but I have caught plenty of "sand" bass in my yard.  AND speaking of the BPS catalog, yes it accomanies me to the throne lots of times.  There's no telling how many times I will flip through the pages (knowing exactly what's inside).  There's a routine at my house.  When I get home I look for the mail, and ask my wife, "Is there any good reading material?"  She rolls her eyes and says, "No, you'll just have to go alone today!"  It is then and there that I reach for the trusty BPS master catalog.  About a half an hour later, I hear the question, "Did you die in there?"   ;D  

But there's nothing like a trip to the john when the new "Bassmaster" arrives!

[Stickling]

One thing i dont understand is, If you try it in a pool wont the chlorine smell get on the lure and repel bass?

[Will]

Oh, no you are not crazy by testing your lures in the tub. Do anything that makes you a better fisherman!

[JHall]

You mean to tell me you can fish from the toilet??!!  Man, my mornings just got better!

[JHall]

In response to your dilaema, tell your girlfriend she needs a shrink because she changes clothes x many times before she goes out.  When she tells you that it different, tell her she is just trying to see what things look like and you are simply doing the same.  

Either that or start fishing buttnaked from the front porch and if she asks what the heck you're doin, tell her,  "Shhhh...  the trees have ears and they work for the FBI and they are trying to steal my top secret cast so they can bring down the KGB but instead I am showing them an altered version of the cast that will only feed the children of Ethiopia." , then see if fishing in the bath tub seems weird to her.

[Stickling]

LOL thats hillarious

[Raul]

It is then and there that I reach for the trusty BPS master catalog.  About a half an hour later, I hear the question, "Did you die in there?"

Are u shure your wife and mine aren 't related ? mine says exactly the same to me  ;D. Of course I switch from the Angler 's Catalog to the Saltwater Catalog and to the Hunting Catalog, also I have a nice collection of fishing magazines at hand, it 's unbelievable the ammount of information you can get just being there doing your business.  

My kid is 2 years old and we take him to the daycare center during the morning, his teacher asked us if we could send some magazines for him to cut out pics and stuff like that, well he went to school with a bunch of old BPS catalogs, it 's never to early inlife to break them in.  

[squid]

Hummmm....that is funny.  I too have lot of magazines for reading....lol  I might use that story one day.

[Fisher of Men]

Raul,

I just tell her it's a "man" thing.  She just doesn't understand.  I also have one of those "Bathroom Readers".  You ever seen one of those books?  I'd like to see the demographics of those who purchased it.  Probably more men, or bought as gifts to men.  -FOM

[duncast48TN]

Just dont practice with your "worm" when shes in the tub. You might get a bite!