1.) Every time you go outside, you are checking the wind direction (even when you know you aren't going fishing)

2.) Your homepage on your computer is set to Calfishing.com

3.) You look outside to see that it is snowing and the first thing that you think about is... man I wish I was on the lake right now (Actually said that this morning). Should have said something like... wow, it's snowing. I should probably get my daughter out of bed.

4.) You try to hang Stocker Trout, Triple Trout and Rago baits from the Christmas tree before your wife sees what you are doing.

5.) Last but not least... you are dead asleep when all of a sudden you set the hook and fall out of bed.

I must admitt. I am an addict. :7

What about you... ?

You don't feel that bad when you loose a $35.00 lure but have a fit if you misplace $2.00 change you got back from your lunch

Stop making me laugh while I'm work! I've had that dream before where you set the hook and wake yourself up on the hookset. I remember in the dream thinking - set! set!!!!! Next thing I knew I woke up right in the middle of a hookset, in bed. rofl.

I remember after a solid week of fishing (mostly worm dragging), I went to set the hook when someone in the seat behind me tugged on my seat belt a few times.

Hey it felt like a spotted bass bite!

I have done the hook set thing too LOL!!!!!!!!
Lets not forget ) A 10 lb bass is just a nice one Also when you swing a 6 lb into the boat.
OH My wife puts large mouth bass lights on the X-mas tree :-)

Don.

..the cormorants love you (or rather your big swimbait). yet you love them too for pinpointing where the baitfish are.
http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/5572-cormorant_IMG_0058.jpg


factoid: some asian countries use trained cormorants to catch fish for them, in return for the caught fish the cormorants get to eat some of those fish so they won't starve.

As I recall, they didn't train them, they placed a steel ring around their neck so the larger fish could not be swallowed.

Well, at least I haven't actually fallen out of bet yet :)

On a related note, you know you fish at night too much when you reach for your forehead to turn your headlamp off whenever you cut any fishing line...

When you stick a 9+ fattie and you are somehow disappointed. Its all about perspective.....

More to add:

1) you search on tacklewarehouse.com every 2 hours to see if the baits you want have come in yet

2) the check out gal at Super Target thinks you're queer for buying nail polish so often

3) You inspect every pack of paper clips you see in every store, looking for that perfect paper clip for that one bait's stinger hook

4) Your girlfriend/wife knows not to mention the lakes you fish, how you fish, your baits, etc to random people you encounter

5) You can pretend to be a trout fisherman without hesitation, who is getting ready to take his 3 daughters with terminal cancer fishing, while talking to Fish&Game or other people who might be in the know about trout stockings or similar juicy information

MP

Oh bro, you are killing me :+. Damn I was embarrased buying the nail polish the first time :D

yeah I smiled @ the chick at rite aide and said "model paint doesnt have rich enough colors".luckiy i had my kids w/me otherwise it would have looked bad.good ones guys! i can relate...
Brian

Mark this is the best thread ever! LMAO!! I just spent 10 minutes cleaning the soda off my flat screen when I read this!

When you are experienced at releasing an Osprey. A few years back I was fishing with my gilrfriend and 5 year old son. We had been out all day and were headed back to the truck. I threw a 7" dark trout slammer way out behind the boat and started to put some tackle away. I see a shadow go rippin' by and knew right away what was about to happen. I grab my rod yell and reel trying to get the bait to dive but it was to late. My slammer was 20' in the air. after a short tussle the osprey was in the water with a hook in its leg.:-( we got close to the bird and I threw my sweatshirt over its head and scooped him up out of the water. (those birds are bigger than they look.) I now had a my son, my girlfried, myself, and a bird with a 6' wing span in my 10' boat. We all stayed as calm as we could. (bird included) After turning the bait and line around the bird was free.:) the osprey was released unhurt. both it and its partner circled over us for over an hr. I now carrie a camera almost always.