When you no longer carry a tacklebox into the boat, the boat is your tacklebox.

When Johnny Morris and Dick Cabela send you personally signed Christams cards every year.

When your idea of getting a higher education is attending to The Bassmasters University.

When your boat, towing vehicle and your gear is worth more than your house.

When your boat and towing vehicle are fully paid but your house is on a third mortgage.

When your boat and towing vehicle are brand new but your house is 40 years old.

When your garden looks like the Amazon jungle.

When you practice casting, flipping and pitching in that jungle that used to be your garden.

When you have spend 1000 dollars in a rod and reel but you don 't spend 40 dollars in a pair of trousers because they are too expensive.

When you can 't understand why your wife spends money purchasing garbage like clothes and shoes.

When it 's nearly impossible to get you out of bed to go to work but on weekends you get up at 4:00 AM.

AMEN!   ;D

LOL sounds about right.

When your wife comes down to show you her new outfit, dark gold capris and a white blouse with gold and silver patterned glitter, deep red lips and dangling earings and you say:

Woman, you'd make a great lure...

And mean it.

When you tell your family physician to take a hike when he tells that you can no longer fish because you have developed a severe case of skin cancer due to sun exposure and your face is falling appart in pieces.

When your Tackle Bags, Boats, and Rods & Reels are more organized than your house is.

When you spend a good portion of your college loans on new fishing gear.

the MRI shows acute arthritis in your shoulder and as you rest uncomfortably with the shoulder iced you are thinking of what you are gonna try tomorrow.

Your gear alone = the price of your fiberglass bass boat.

Buying 40 lucky crafts seems reasonable but you cant even think of fixing your tow rig so its brakes work and rely on the trailer brakes cause your boat and trailer cost more than your truck and house combined.

When you borrow your wife's red fingernail polish to "doctor" up your baits.

When your wife calls from the Wal-Mart parking lot mad as h*ll because she leaned into the minivan to get the kid out and got hooked on her pants by a crankbait you left there.

when you have the 1-800 order number for bass pro on your speed dial!!

When the people at bass pro know you on a first name basis.

When your wife calls you on your cell on the way to the lake and says she's leaving, and you say well, I'm gonna miss ya and keep driving.

When you go to bed at 10:00 PM on friday night to try to get enough sleep so you can get up int he morning, then toss and turn all night wondering how you should attach a new body of water.....then at 2:00 Am (with no sleep) you say fire truck this! and get up...and start getting your gear in order.  Like I just did!  I hope I don't fall asleep and fall into the water.

when youre at work, should be thinking about your job/task at hand, but instead your planning youre stategy for the next fishing trip.

Kana, it looks like you and I are the only ones on the board right now.  You fishing today.  Is it Sunday there in Japan?

it sat night here, i just got hoem from work, thought about some night action, but ill het the am bite instead!  just picked upa new megabass popper, looks sweet cant wait

Kana, Good luck with that!  It is 4:30 am in California.  i am leaving now to hit the Sacramento Slough that feeds into the sac. river.  Later!

good luck abel, tight lines!  (all day!)

When you 're the only angler from the "other side of the pond" browsing the forums when the rest of us are asleep. ;D

When you almost fail marketing bc instead of doin ur work on the computers you were on this website

When Bassresource.com is your homepage!

when your sore the next day.

when your twice as tired after one day of fishing then what you are from a whole week of work.

When you have no nails, but you buy red nail polish to touch up the red hooks. ;D

When your tan stops just above your elbow.