When you drive 6 hours to get to the lake. Fish the day before the tourny and get skunked,fish the day of the tourny and get skunked, go back the day after to redeem yourself fall return from hospital with server sprang and want to fish somemore because topwater bite is on and you can't set the  hook because of sprang to left arm from fall early that day.(all true happened easter weekand at tablerock lake) > > >

When Your wife says lets go on vacation next week and you say what lake.

When your 2006 avalanche sits in the rain while your 2003 boat sits in the garage!

When your freezing to death in a driving rain and can barely tie a knot because your hands are cold and then you land a bass and all seems right with the world and it isn't as cold as it was 5 minutes ago.

When you take your wife out for a leisure trip on your deck boat and plan for a day of pleasure and she sees you eyeing a spot just off island and she says "Why don't you try over there, it looks like a good spot." and you know she's on to you but knows that you're hooked but she doesn't mind the detour....that's when you know you're a bass fisheman and you also know that you married the right girl.

When you go to Bass Pro and find yourself helping others pick out their rigs and lures and a Bass Pro employee comes up and thanks you for your help......while your wife patiently waits for you and smiles when you apologize for taking so long in picking out that one lure you "needed"

When you dream about bass fishing....alot!

When you went on your honeymoon in Jamaica and when people ask you how you liked it you say you rather would have been fishing with your wife for the honeymoon......Guilty.  

You buy a pool, not to swim, but to test your lures.

When you look at a mudpuddle in your yard after it rains, and subconsciusly start looking for structure, sizing up conditions and thinking about lure choices.

when you always have "racoon eyes" from the tan line that your sunglasses leave.

... you drive over an hour one way to fish for forty-five minutes.

... you fumble through your wife's nail polish collection looking for a good "blood color" for crankbaits.

... the bait shop guys know you on a first name basis and let you use cash or "barter".

... every vacation you take invoves a lake nearby

... you turn in your tourney schedule as your requeested vacation days at work.

GUILTY!!! ;D

When you get your neighbor to help you put your 14ft aluminum boat in a 15ft pool to see if it leaks.

Guilty.... ;D

Worm

When you get all stoked to fish with your relatives and the wife says we are going to see your niece.....not go fishing.

Then she says "What's more important....your niece or FISHING" in that sarcastic tone of voice.  And you think to yourself....what a stupid question.....has she seen that pond by Matts house?

GUILTY!!   ;D

You go out and spend 40 grand on a boat. And you still live at home with your parents.

Here are a couple...

You get mad when you have to pay 3 bucks a gallon for gas for your truck/car....  but its somehow its not so bad for your boat....

When you meet a girl "do you like fishing" can either make or break the deal...

You spend more time looking at fishing tackle than you do looking for clothes, food, and all other entertainment combined...

You have ever had to set yourself a fishing budget.....

You have ever said "It is a great price and I could use a topwater, flipping, crankbait... etc rod anyways....

Here are a couple...

You spend more time looking at fishing tackle than you do looking for clothes, food, and all other entertainment combined...

GUILTY!!!

I can spend 2.5 hours looking at fishing eq at dicks just for a couple of items

Your wife drives a beat '94 Mercury sable and you drive a rusty 97 Nissan truck with 150,000 miles on it but you just bought a brand new $25,000.00 bass rig!

:)You think that same beat-up truck is the coolest thing you've ever seen... but only when it is pulling the boat!

:)Your bass boat has more horsepower than your tow vehicle!

You know your a bass fishermen when:

1.  every table in the house has a fishing magazine on it.

2.  when both bath rooms have bass reading material at arms reach

3.  your master bed room has 14 area lake maps pinned on the wall for mid-night oil burning and studying

4.  you can't sleep the night before a big tourney

5.   You know you are a dedicated bass fishermen when you get propositioned by a beautiful woman for pleasures, and you reply to her by saying, " Sorry, I'm going fishing right now and if I catch something, At least I know what I'm catching.

You fish so much that if you have to stay at home for more than an hours length of time during daylight hours, you find yourself pacing back and forth because you don't know what else to do.

During the warmer months, you lose weight because you forget to eat when fishing.

Your backyard goldfish pond is stocked with bluegill. There used to be bass, but they kept eating the goldfish. :-/

....you have to keep expanding your rod rack!

Guilty!

....if you start to cast and say, "If I was a Bass I'd be sittin right...(as your lure hits the water in the spot you wanted it to)...there!"

Alfred

You can recall from memory where you bought each rod and reel, the time of day, and how much you paid for it.

-You go to the dentist for toothwork not from sweets & cavities, but rather from biting off your 17# test line so you didn't have to waste time looking for the clippers.

-You have a special saying that you swear will coax the bass into hitting your lure

if you are a college kid who gets a summer job, not to pay tuition for next fall.....but to pay for that new $250 reel you've had your eye on!!! ;D

You know you bass fish when you have five nice fishing rods, but you need more.