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

[stratos179]

1. When your kids shoelaces break and you replace them with 20# fireline and teach them to tie their shoes with a palomar knot

2. when you modify a bait and try it in the bathtub to see its action and spend 15 minutes trying to get the hooks unstuck from the drain (dont ask)

3. when you have to buy your wife a new candle holder because you knocked it off the wall in the hallway while practicing pitching (**** cat)

4. when you have to explain to you wife why the cats foot is bleeding(see #3)

[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.

[ljbass]

When you mount your mailbox on top of the motor!

[dpage70]

when you push off of a stump, the stump breaks off and you fall in waste deep water. water temps 40 degrees, air temps 25 degrees, 5 miles from the boat ramp, 15 minutes after you put in. you tie up you bibs and jacket to the seat post on the back deck and say run this SOB for 20 minutes and they should dry out or freeze. if they freeze we'll leave. they dried out. wasn't me, it was a friend of mine in my boat. crazy SOB.

[kyfishing]

You go fishing even though your wife is not feeling well. Later she calls you only to tell you she has Phnemonia.

[Rowdy]

Or leave home at 3;30 drive to dale holler stay till 11:00,0 bites start home- Dumb Partner says"we can catch some cappie at barren"

here we go,fish till 4:00 very few keepers, get home neighbor says he caught some good bass the night before on nolin,my wife is holding my son,18 months old sick with a high fever, dumb partner says "Im game"
Here we go, fished till 1:00 am, got in bed about 2:00 wife wanted to talk "LOUDLY" Didnot go fishing for a couple weeksx(

Rowdy

[MsgMills]

Wife feeling kinda poorly with Head ache, but had a men's slow pitch softball game @ 5:00 pm and after the game had a 12 hour night tournament... Got home only to find Wife had to be taken to Hospital with Most Severe Migrain Headache in the world...Didn't matter to her at all that I won the tournament and the softball game.... Man what a night I had...awesome....

[justlookingn]

After you blew your last thrity five bucks on those Banjo Minnows instead of paying the gas bill.

[kc]

Wife goes into labor with first born and neighbor takes her to hospital while you are fishing on Rough... (true story)!

Now the rest of the story. She was 2 weeks over due and we were both on pins and needles waiting for her to go in labor when she decided she was going back to work for a day and "told" me I could go fishing. It was mid-March, the worst time to ground a die-hard fisherman and she didn't have to say it twice. When I came home my neighbor met me backing the boat in the drive way and said my wife was at the hospital. Fortunately, she didn't give birth until morning (never would have lived that down) and the results were a 10 lb 2 oz keeper. Shame I couldn't match that on the water!

kc

[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!!!!

[smljaw]

You stick to you guns and keep fishing plans in late May even though heavy rains and tornados hit the night before. The small lake you fish the next morning is up about 8 feet and SUPER MUDDY. You get blanked for 2 straight hours and decide to try another lake. While getting the boat out of the lake and off the property you get the trailer stuck in the mud. AAA comes out 2 hours later and you're back on the road. Drive 2+ hours to another lake where you know you'll find better conditions and water clarity. Fish for 5 hours and catch about 6 bass. AND, I still remember my best fish that day. Caught a scrappy 3 pounder on a Pop R!

[artcarney_agr]

You're a hardcore fisherman when you've read every single post on fishin.com - including all the UK / UofL ones.........