There are some good ones on here.    

You know the bass bug has smitten you when you drop the hammer on a day that has 20 mile an hour winds and the temp reads 28 degrees, and yet you put her on plane to make a long run to that favorite hole.

When ladies ear rings ressembles something you think would add flash to your favorite spinner bait.

When theres more loose tackle on your dresser than normal stuff you find on your dresser.

And finally, you know the Bass Bug has got you when at the end of the year, you have kissed more bass than you did your other half for the year.

"find soft plastic lures and crankbaits in you pockets"

happens to me all the time, actually found some lures in my backpack at school.

Happens to me all the time. The wife is always finding soft plastics in the washing machine. OOPSS!!

Actually had some Berkley trout worms go through the other day.  :'(

When you have a collection of lures on the fireplace mantel to play with when your wife turns on a boring tv show.

When you sink some cover in a lake to make your own secret spot

When you get to the lake or river and get ticked because someone is fish your spot your fish.

When you get up early and don't care if you get a cup of coffee in you just want to get out, for fear your wife will get up and come down to change your plans for you.

When your kids start talking to you knowledgeably about fishing.

When you get up early and don't care if you get a cup of coffee in you just want to get out, for fear your wife will get up and come down to change your plans for you.

Guilty......

You know you're addicted to bass fishing if you:

Add several steps to the recovery process just so you can addicted to the sport longer.

(p.s., After reading many/most of the replies, I realize I am a mere boy scout.  You've all got me beat hands down)!!!!   ;D

When your wife starts calling your boat "the other woman".

You drive around town for 2 hours to find "RIT" powdered dye to change the color of your pork baits!  :

TRUE STORY

Ronnie

You drive 12 hours overnight to get to your Lake Front vacation rental on Lake Wier in Florida and instead of sleeping, you drop the boat in and fish for 8 hours!  

You just hooked up the boat at 11 pm (five minutes ago) to go out first thing in the morning before your wife wakes you up to start running her (I forgot to pick up this and that errands) for turkey day

To add to my post, on Thanksgiving morning I got up and turned on ESPN looking for the fishing shows.

Also tried Versus, too.

When I don't go to work it has to be a Saturday morning with fishing shows.

Duh?

when your crossing an international border, and before you go through customs

you eat the bag of senko's you keep hidden for "emergencies".

Last year while working for Home Depot in Tyler TX I agreed to work 3 overnights in a row so I could fish during the day. While doing the overnights I would take my rod and practice pitching and flipping from the storage buidings with decks/porches  on display in the parking lot!  That's bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You come out of a meeting and the guys are talking about a cute hottie that was there.  You aren't sure what she looked like, but, remember her earrings would have probaly made a nice set of willow blades.

True story.

How about, you have more soft baits on top of your dresser than change

You ask to have the location of a special training session moved because you are in a room overlooking a small lake and all you can think about is fishing (happened to me)

Talk the president of the training company into allowing you to fish in their private 10 acre pond, as well as lending you a couple of baitcasters, for the rest of the week.

Showing up to training 2 hours early, staying 2 hours late and missing free evening "entertainment" to catch a few more of the large mouths in that pond.

You buy your wife a few surprise pieces of jewelry every time you go nuts over that new rod or reel you couldn't turn down on ebay.

The worst though is after being downsized at your job of 18 years, after just getting your dream home on a great fishing lake, you find a job 1 3/4 hours away and keep making the drive because, "no, I don't want to move - I live on a lake".

when you kiss more bass in a month than you do women in a year

If your going to use crankbaits as christmas decorations for your tree.