my wife has never had problem with me going fishin and most of the time she wants to go she also fishes alot of tourneys with me and does pretty good got me a good one most of the time if im goin by my self she is up in the the truck before i get the boat hooked up now my buddy on the other hand is a differnt story make it short and sweet i told him he better get him a few ugly sticks before she threw all of the others in the trash