You might be a hardcore bass fisherman if.......

[Senko4life]

You might be a hardcore bass fisherman if.....

-You spend more at Bass Pro Shops than you do on groceries

-The neighboors ask if your ok when your flipping a pitching to hoola hoops in 2 feet of snow

-if you wear a fishing vest to work

-if you cant put on a pair of pants with out finding rubber worms, grubs and the occasioinal crank bait in your pocket

-If you call people "soft jerk baits" out of anger

-if you would really really really rather be fishing

-if you wonder how you could dam the creek down the road to make an excelent lake

-if you think like a fish 24/7

-if you dont just power fish but you power eat, shower, walk, pee, breath and just about power everything else

-If you've ever asked your girl friend why she's being such a crank bait

-if bassresource.com is your home page

-if your friends claim you were saying "Bass with teeth!" in your sleep (true story lol)

-if you've ever hooked yourself in the face with a spinner bait and actually considered leaving it in for a while because it looks awsome!

-if your have permanant bass thumb

-if Keven Vandam and Rick Clunn are you heroes

-If you went through dozends of Rattle Traps to find the ones with the best sound

-If you can carry on a two sided conversation with a bass

Just a few of my ideas, lets hear some of yours

[roadwarrior]

It's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.

You get up for a drink of water and pee,

but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,

you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!

[slomoe]

-If all of your friends are standing around talking about carbon fiber hoods for their sports cars, while you day dream of getting that carbon bassart handle for you reel.

[John J.]

All you think about when you are at college is "What bait am I going to use for this time of year? What presentation to use and where could the bass be at?" and you pay more attention to bass fishing than your instructor =Þ

and also your truck is littered with bass fishing decals (mine is!).

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Wow! Guilty of almost all of those  

I'll post more later when I have time but here are a few:

-When you carry an extra rod and a few lures in your vehicle at all times so you can cast to any mud puddle you see even when it definatily looks like it doesnt have any fish or is 6 inches deep.

-when you have the quantum rap song commercial as your ring tone.

-when you use a hot tub,aquarium,or swimming pool to try out new lures.

-when you occasionally call of sick to go fishing.

-when your rod rock resembles the back wall at a billiards hall.

[eastkybass]

If your wife has ever threatened to ban all fishing web sites on your computer. ;D

[LooksLikeSinbad]

These are great!

- You see a fallen tree on the side of the road and think "that would make a great lay-down"

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

If you are here.....

[electrikal]

"if you wonder how you could dam the creek down the road to make an excelent lake " only it's behind the house and I've been trying to figure out how to convince TVA that it would be in everyone's best interest.

 If you've ever tried to get out of going to the in-laws for the holidays just so you could be on the river when nobody else is out there. LOL!!

[ring fry]

All the above.  

If you are playing in a s-l-o-w scramble golf tournament and you throw your spinner bait rod in your golf bag because you will have time to make a few casts.

If your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.

[Bassnajr]

Hey all..

If you wife says "I don't want to hear the words bass, bassboat, fish, or fishing ever again, I mean it....YOUR OBSESSED!!!!

(lol True story..happened last night!!! I just e-mailed her a photo of me fishing yesterday to her at work...I didn't say "THE WORDS" though!!) ;D

[frogtog]

My right hand makes a circling motion all the time.

[John J.]

*You watch fishing shows on tv and you get anxious to get out! (all the time for me).

*If your spouse says "We need to sell some of your fishing gear to pay the house note, truck note and/or the bills."

*If you have a myspace dedicated to fishing (Guilty as charged here).

*You propose on a bass boat in the middle of the lake

*Your honeymoon is either a trip to bass pro shops, cabelas or on the lake.

*You hate seeing your boat winterized and even in the coldest, nastiest weather you go fishing.

*Your trophy hall contains all the bass fishing ribbons, trophies and equipment you won from fishing tournaments.

*You have a picture of you holding your bass on your desktop background.

[Tin]

-When everyone skips on the last day of classes or the day before April Vacation and they are recovering from hangovers and still sleeping, you are trying to get fish to come up on a buzzbait.

[Tokyo Tony]

When you spend 5 hours last night finalizing the transition in your tacklebox from 3700's to 3701's (and some Falcon's) so you can divide your lures into more specific categories, and also replacing some old trebles and adding feathered trebles to some LC's.

When you're looking forward to getting out of work so you can go home and spend another five hours organizing your soft plastics into a more effective system.

When you know that before spring you'll probably reorganize your tacklebox 10 more times, but you're ok with that.

When the last three nights you've gone to Dick's, Cabela's, then Cabela's again, each night having to go back to the entrance to get a basket because you couldn't hold the things you realized that you needed, and feeling happy as a clam after leaving with a big bag of goodies and an empty wallet (even though there'll be ice on the water soon).

Instead of going to your trout honey hole (where you would have caught several good trout) last Sunday you go to your local favorite bass pond with a jig and pig just to try to get a strike or two, get skunked, but still feel pretty good about it cuz you fished well.

[Bassboy15]

If when your mom goes to watch her soap operas on Tivo or DVR and they have been deleted because of all the fishing shows... :-X

NOT that I did that or anything...

[grimlin]

When your making casts with an imaginary rod and reel while sleeping...

[SPEEDBEAD.]

If your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.

Guilty as charged....but I only visit one  

[tntitans21399]

-if you plan a date around your fishing schedule

[slomoe]

If your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.

Guilty as charged....but I only visit one

X2

I usually get in about 30 mins early to get situated and check up on BR

[pondhopper]

It's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.

You get up for a drink of water and pee,

but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,

you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!

LOL. You win!

[fishfordollars]

I was at the Alabama/LSU game several weeks ago, on the 40 yard line and talking to the guy next to me about fishing the Coosa river(Weiss, Logan Martin, Lay, Mitchell, etc.) while Palmer was fumbling the d**n football to give the game away. Now that's hardcore.

[jb_adams]

My right hand makes a circling motion all the time.

That's as funny as the "bass with teeth" dream!

These are all actual events for me.  It's TRUE!

- when your wife thinks you're having an affair with your fishing buddy because you text message each other and email each other all day (discussing baits, planning trips, etc)

- when your 6yr old ask, "why do you ALWAYS want to go fishing?"

- when you have more lake pictures, bass pictures, and pictures of your fishing buddy's fish than you do of your wife

- when you are willing to put your house up as collateral to buy that dream dream bass boat with the 250hp motor

- when you spend over $200 a month in baits, loose 1/4 of them and replace them next month while adding to your ever growing plastic collection of "never fished plastics"

- when your wife wants you to go Christmas shopping with her, you highly object because you want to go fishing. Then she mentions the local BPS store & you're like a hound in the back of a truck ready to go, tail waiving and panting like a dog! (that will happen this weekend for me!)

and finally....

- when your monthly subscription of BASSMASTER arrives, your wife yells, "Honey, your porn arrived today in the mail"

[jb_adams]

It's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.

You get up for a drink of water and pee,

but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,

you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!

LOL. You win!

No, that's just the sign that you are a serious BassResource.com addict!

My wife would agree with that!  After years, she finally got me off the off-road forums only to exchange it for a fishing forum!

[Branuss04]

What a sweet thread...

Here's a couple true ones for me...

When you spend your girlfriends 20th birthday on the lake.

On your 2 year anniversary, you make a trip to the bait shop to buy yourself an anniversary present that cost more than the one you bought your gf, before going out to dinner.

After working from 3 in the morning till noon, your buddy calls up and wants to do a night trip.  Your on the lake around 6 and fish till 8am the next day without sleep.

Your buddy calls you up after work saying that the bite is on.  It's mid january, 35 degrees out with a massive cold front moving in.  All you have is your work clothes on, you stop by his house, pick up some gear, go to the lake.  You fish for a few hours with 20 mph winds, and it starts snowing on you.  Instead of calling it quits, you just head for the trees and keep fishing.