You know you're a hardcore fisherman when...

[smljaw]

You know exactly which 2 teeth you use to cut the tag off the knot.

You set the ararm for 5AM but you wake up and your completely ready to go by 4:30.

You stand on the bow of the boat taking a leak and casting at the same time.

The doctor delivers the news that your baby boy weighs 7.4 and measures 22" and you think, "Man, that's a good one."

THIS ONE HAPPENED TO ME ABOUT 5 DAYS AGO... You're watching a Frosty the Snowman cartoon with your 2 year old and you're thinking, "That sure looks like good Float N Fly weather."

Any others out there?

[redneckshadrap]

You use a 5 dollar bill to measure your fish to make sure it's legal.

[smljaw]

Your "last cast" occurs 45 minutes before your last cast.

[RngerMac]

When you sit in the boat in a blinding snow storm only to catch 50 plus fish on FNF.

When you put the boat on the trailer you have more than an inch of snow on the front deck.

[ranger pro 1]

when it is 17 below 0 and you are on the lake fishing with the stering on the motor froze and when you catch a fish and start to reel it in the reel freeze's up and you have to hand line it in. True story John Crase

[jcb]

In honor of Dad:

Even though you've run out of waxworms, the thought of quitting bream fishing before dark hurts so much that you cut the eyes out of some you've already caught and keep right on catchin' fish.

[dcbasser]

1.When you can lip your newborn and guess the weight and length better than the nurse at the hospital.
2.When you leave the wedding chapel with your new bride and instead of cans tied to the back of the vehicle you have 20lb fireline attached to bobbers. ( you need the cans to keep the nightcrawlers in)and instead of just married you have nice catch etched into the windows.

[buzzking]

1. You have to back troll and wash water over the stern of the boat to fill the livewells b/c the pumps are froze up tighter than ####'s hat band.

2. Once every ten minutes you find yourself doing the YMCA or someother involuntary convulsion in a desperate attempt to regain feeling in your extremeties. (i.e. running in place, etc.)

3. your hands are cold to the point an attempt to take a leak returns the little guy with a case of turtle in a shell syndrome.

4. And last but not least, you know you are a hardcore fisherman when its cold as crap outside, and you know good and well you could just cruise to your spot since and fish since its not tourney day. but since your partner for the day decided he didnt need a helmet you fly WFO across the lake just to torture him...LMAO

Happy new years all

[elnutsmalljaws]

You break off the ice from the boat cover at 2am in the morning. Drive from Frankfort to Dale Hollow, fish all day without ONE SINGLE PULLDOWN, on the day that UK is playing U of L in Basketball, take out at dark and drive back so frustrated because you had not one single bite all day, get home around 8pm, watch the recording of the game (which UK won as you know who was fouled on a 3 point attempt), wake up after 4 hours of sleep thinking about the bobber dissapearing to the depths, and without any planning at all, get out of bed, kiss your wife and tell her that you are going back for more pain and / or pleasure (to which she says "you are nuts" for it is raining cats and dogs outside), hitch up the boat and back to Dale Hollow again.

[elnutsmalljaws]

When you pull a hernia while unloading a cooler from the truck at 5am in the Saturday morning, then fish all day pre-fishing for a tourney at Barren the next day in March with your buddy Cliff. Pretty much in agonizing pain from Noon until you take out around 6pm. Then get back to the hotel and can't lay down or sit in any position to get rid of the pain, off to the hospital in Glasgow at 8pm only after it is way too painful, transfered to St. Joe in Lexington at Midnight and into Surgery at 6am Sunday, 8 inch incision and 40 staples later Hernia is repaired but Tourney was missed.

[mhall]

>You break off the ice from the boat cover at 2am in the
>morning. Drive from Frankfort to Dale Hollow, fish all day
>without ONE SINGLE PULLDOWN, on the day that UK is playing U
>of L in Basketball, take out at dark and drive back so
>frustrated because you had not one single bite all day, get
>home around 8pm, watch the recording of the game (which UK won
>as you know who was fouled on a 3 point attempt), wake up
>after 4 hours of sleep thinking about the bobber dissapearing
>to the depths, and without any planning at all, get out of
>bed, kiss your wife and tell her that you are going back for
>more pain and / or pleasure (to which she says "you are
>nuts" for it is raining cats and dogs outside), hitch up
>the boat and back to Dale Hollow again.


Yea and Patrick Sparks walked farther than Forrest Gump on that dang play too!!!!

[elnutsmalljaws]

Come on Mark you still sound a bit bitter. It is not called "Walking" it is called "Traveling". Those days are in the past and the way I see it this year we are both in trouble for my team is terrible and I do recall a pretty good whippin was placed on your team, which makes us both in for a long winter so we might as well go fishing.