i dont hide my gear. i hid a pistol from my wife once and after that catastrophe ive never done it again.

plus, she lets me buy what i need and i plan for what i want.

If you don't want your wife to find it, don't bring it home. Duh! Keep it at your girlfriends house.

Thats Awesome!!!

I don't keep my tackle hidden from my wife and she does not keep her quilting stuff hidden from me.

Life is easier that way. 

I don't hide anything from my wife, in fact, she handles ALL the finances in this household so if I want some new gear or baits or whatever, I just ask her if I can have $50 bucks or whatever. If the money is available then I buy whatever I want, if it is not available then she lets me know when it is. She also doesn't mind when I go fishing everynight after work (summetrime) plus everyday during the weekend. ;D

Cliff

This is the same as I am. I usually only go 1 day on the weekend though so that we do have sometime to spend together

The way I feel about having the monkey control me is, I don't drink, do drugs, gamble or party so If all it takes to make me get "high" is to spend a few dollars a week on new baits that I never fish with then I am doing pretty good!

I'm sorry but I don't understand the need to lie to your spouse

I'm sorry but I don't understand the need to lie to your spouse

DITTO. And, anyone who thinks he can hide something from a woman is clearly delusional.

I don't have to.Although she does think I have too much.

Several years ago as my wife and I were exiting the archery shop we did business with, she looked over at these pidgeons in the parking lot across the street(100 feet away or more) and says..."hey, look at that one legged pidgeon". I took out the binoculars and sure enough one of those birds was hopping on one leg!!!

No, I am smart enough not to try to hide anything from my wife.

I don't hide anything.

I can honestly say that I don't hide anything from my wife.  I can also say that I just don't bother to confess to her what I do buy.   

If it is big enough for her to notice, it would be foolish to try. 

Pffft! No need to hide anything. We fish together ALL the time, and often share tackle. She spends more on tackle than me! ;D

X2 Nicole has nothing but Fenwick and St croix rods, KVD and Clunn Signature reels and her own compartment in the boat where she keeps HER stuff.

If I hide anything, it's to keep her from stealing it. ;D ;D

my wife takes care of the money, when we have some "extra cash", we buy some toys!

Hell, if I was in charge of paying the bills, the bank would own my house & a whole lot of fishing gear!!

My wife has better equipment than I do. I never hide it but she always needs something new. It's a great arrangement. She fishes avids while I have to fish falcons so who's counting?

As the immortal Al Bundy would have said:

Hide it in a place she'll never go. The kitchen.  ;D

I don't "deliberately" hide my stuff...but she did recently find out I have the Visa number memorized...what was I thinking?

I don't hide anything from my wife, in fact, she handles ALL the finances in this household so if I want some new gear or baits or whatever, I just ask her if I can have $50 bucks or whatever. If the money is available then I buy whatever I want, if it is not available then she lets me know when it is. She also doesn't mind when I go fishing everynight after work (summetrime) plus everyday during the weekend. ;D

Cliff

I'm in the same boat, if I handled the finances we would be in trouble.  I will ask her and she always says sure if we have the funds.

She will kill me when she finds out that I am going to buy the Humminbird 898 SI. Or she will want to put me in the nut house! But I guide so that will help!

I don't hide anything

If you have to hide things from your spouse, your problems go far deeper then what fishing gear you have.

If I had to conceal the money spent on my favorite pastime it wouldn't be much of a marriage.

She buys a 4 dollar frappe' before work, I buy a 4 dollar pack of worms after work.  I know she enjoys her coffee so I like her to have them, and she knows I enjoy fishing so she is happy for me to get my lures.  As long as the bills are paid and the auto transfer goes into savings, she doesnt worry about my lures and I don't worry about her coffee's. 

Not being married I can't talk about hiding from a wife.

But my mom can read my mind and it doesn't matter if I hide them at my girl friends house (her dad would use it then >) My mom would still find out that I bought some new stuff.

The price I pay for eating well and not having to pay for a crap dorm at school.

I'm the boss in my house so I don't have to hide anything from my wife.  Ooops here she comes gotta go.

It could be worse........she could fish, too.

I spend at least twice as much at the tackle store with her than without her. Women have no natural defense against the bait monkey.  :-?

"It is much easier to ask for (and receive) forgiveness than it is to ask for (and recieve) permission!" ;D