You might be a hardcore bass fisherman if....... 2025
Senko4life reply :
You might be a hardcore bass fisherman if.....
-You spend more at Bass Pro Shops than you do on groceries
-The neighboors ask if your ok when your flipping a pitching to hoola hoops in 2 feet of snow
-if you wear a fishing vest to work
-if you cant put on a pair of pants with out finding rubber worms, grubs and the occasioinal crank bait in your pocket
-If you call people "soft jerk baits" out of anger
-if you would really really really rather be fishing
-if you wonder how you could dam the creek down the road to make an excelent lake
-if you think like a fish 24/7
-if you dont just power fish but you power eat, shower, walk, pee, breath and just about power everything else
-If you've ever asked your girl friend why she's being such a crank bait
-if bassresource.com is your home page
-if your friends claim you were saying "Bass with teeth!" in your sleep (true story lol)
-if you've ever hooked yourself in the face with a spinner bait and actually considered leaving it in for a while because it looks awsome!
-if your have permanant bass thumb
-if Keven Vandam and Rick Clunn are you heroes
-If you went through dozends of Rattle Traps to find the ones with the best sound
-If you can carry on a two sided conversation with a bass
Just a few of my ideas, lets hear some of yours
roadwarrior reply :
It's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.
You get up for a drink of water and pee,
but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,
you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!
slomoe reply :
-If all of your friends are standing around talking about carbon fiber hoods for their sports cars, while you day dream of getting that carbon bassart handle for you reel.
John J. reply :
All you think about when you are at college is "What bait am I going to use for this time of year? What presentation to use and where could the bass be at?" and you pay more attention to bass fishing than your instructor =Þ
and also your truck is littered with bass fishing decals (mine is!).
Bassin_Fin@tic reply :
Wow! Guilty of almost all of those 
I'll post more later when I have time but here are a few:
-When you carry an extra rod and a few lures in your vehicle at all times so you can cast to any mud puddle you see even when it definatily looks like it doesnt have any fish or is 6 inches deep.
-when you have the quantum rap song commercial as your ring tone.
-when you use a hot tub,aquarium,or swimming pool to try out new lures.
-when you occasionally call of sick to go fishing.
-when your rod rock resembles the back wall at a billiards hall.
eastkybass reply :
If your wife has ever threatened to ban all fishing web sites on your computer. ;D
LooksLikeSinbad reply :
These are great!
- You see a fallen tree on the side of the road and think "that would make a great lay-down"
Low_Budget_Hooker reply :
If you are here.....
electrikal reply :
"if you wonder how you could dam the creek down the road to make an excelent lake " only it's behind the house and I've been trying to figure out how to convince TVA that it would be in everyone's best interest.
If you've ever tried to get out of going to the in-laws for the holidays just so you could be on the river when nobody else is out there. LOL!!
ring fry reply :
All the above.
If you are playing in a s-l-o-w scramble golf tournament and you throw your spinner bait rod in your golf bag because you will have time to make a few casts.
If your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.
Bassnajr reply :
Hey all..
If you wife says "I don't want to hear the words bass, bassboat, fish, or fishing ever again, I mean it....YOUR OBSESSED!!!!
(lol True story..happened last night!!! I just e-mailed her a photo of me fishing yesterday to her at work...I didn't say "THE WORDS" though!!) ;D
frogtog reply :
My right hand makes a circling motion all the time.
John J. reply :
*You watch fishing shows on tv and you get anxious to get out! (all the time for me).
*If your spouse says "We need to sell some of your fishing gear to pay the house note, truck note and/or the bills."
*If you have a myspace dedicated to fishing (Guilty as charged here).
*You propose on a bass boat in the middle of the lake
*Your honeymoon is either a trip to bass pro shops, cabelas or on the lake.
*You hate seeing your boat winterized and even in the coldest, nastiest weather you go fishing.
*Your trophy hall contains all the bass fishing ribbons, trophies and equipment you won from fishing tournaments.
*You have a picture of you holding your bass on your desktop background.
Tin reply :
-When everyone skips on the last day of classes or the day before April Vacation and they are recovering from hangovers and still sleeping, you are trying to get fish to come up on a buzzbait.
Tokyo Tony reply :
When you spend 5 hours last night finalizing the transition in your tacklebox from 3700's to 3701's (and some Falcon's) so you can divide your lures into more specific categories, and also replacing some old trebles and adding feathered trebles to some LC's.
When you're looking forward to getting out of work so you can go home and spend another five hours organizing your soft plastics into a more effective system.
When you know that before spring you'll probably reorganize your tacklebox 10 more times, but you're ok with that.
When the last three nights you've gone to Dick's, Cabela's, then Cabela's again, each night having to go back to the entrance to get a basket because you couldn't hold the things you realized that you needed, and feeling happy as a clam after leaving with a big bag of goodies and an empty wallet (even though there'll be ice on the water soon).
Instead of going to your trout honey hole (where you would have caught several good trout) last Sunday you go to your local favorite bass pond with a jig and pig just to try to get a strike or two, get skunked, but still feel pretty good about it cuz you fished well.
Bassboy15 reply :
If when your mom goes to watch her soap operas on Tivo or DVR and they have been deleted because of all the fishing shows... :-X
NOT that I did that or anything...
grimlin reply :
When your making casts with an imaginary rod and reel while sleeping...
SPEEDBEAD. reply :
QuoteIf your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.
Guilty as charged....but I only visit one
tntitans21399 reply :
-if you plan a date around your fishing schedule
slomoe reply :
QuoteQuoteIf your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.
Guilty as charged....but I only visit one
X2
I usually get in about 30 mins early to get situated and check up on BR
pondhopper reply :
QuoteIt's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.You get up for a drink of water and pee,
but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,
you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!
LOL. You win!
fishfordollars reply :
I was at the Alabama/LSU game several weeks ago, on the 40 yard line and talking to the guy next to me about fishing the Coosa river(Weiss, Logan Martin, Lay, Mitchell, etc.) while Palmer was fumbling the d**n football to give the game away. Now that's hardcore.
jb_adams reply :
QuoteMy right hand makes a circling motion all the time.
That's as funny as the "bass with teeth" dream!
These are all actual events for me. It's TRUE!
- when your wife thinks you're having an affair with your fishing buddy because you text message each other and email each other all day (discussing baits, planning trips, etc)
- when your 6yr old ask, "why do you ALWAYS want to go fishing?"
- when you have more lake pictures, bass pictures, and pictures of your fishing buddy's fish than you do of your wife
- when you are willing to put your house up as collateral to buy that dream dream bass boat with the 250hp motor
- when you spend over $200 a month in baits, loose 1/4 of them and replace them next month while adding to your ever growing plastic collection of "never fished plastics"
- when your wife wants you to go Christmas shopping with her, you highly object because you want to go fishing. Then she mentions the local BPS store & you're like a hound in the back of a truck ready to go, tail waiving and panting like a dog! (that will happen this weekend for me!)
and finally....
- when your monthly subscription of BASSMASTER arrives, your wife yells, "Honey, your porn arrived today in the mail"
jb_adams reply :
QuoteQuoteIt's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.You get up for a drink of water and pee,
but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,
you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!
LOL. You win!
No, that's just the sign that you are a serious BassResource.com addict!
My wife would agree with that! After years, she finally got me off the off-road forums only to exchange it for a fishing forum!
Branuss04 reply :
What a sweet thread...
Here's a couple true ones for me...
When you spend your girlfriends 20th birthday on the lake.
On your 2 year anniversary, you make a trip to the bait shop to buy yourself an anniversary present that cost more than the one you bought your gf, before going out to dinner.
After working from 3 in the morning till noon, your buddy calls up and wants to do a night trip. Your on the lake around 6 and fish till 8am the next day without sleep.
Your buddy calls you up after work saying that the bite is on. It's mid january, 35 degrees out with a massive cold front moving in. All you have is your work clothes on, you stop by his house, pick up some gear, go to the lake. You fish for a few hours with 20 mph winds, and it starts snowing on you. Instead of calling it quits, you just head for the trees and keep fishing.
moby bass reply :
Uh OhhQuoteif you would really really really rather be fishing
Uh OhhQuoteIt's 3:30 in the morning on a workday.You get up for a drink of water and pee,
but instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours,
you check into BassResource.com to see if anything's going on!
Uh OhhQuoteIf you are here....
Uh OhhQuote-when you use a hot tub,aquarium,or swimming pool to try out new lures.
Bass_Akwards reply :
YOU MIGHT BE A HARD CORE BASS FISHERMAN IF......
-Your wife comes home from victorias secret holding 5 new pairs of sexy panties and says "Do you want to have some fun tonight baby?'' and you respond "YES, WERE GOING TO BASS PRO SHOPS!"
- Every time you take a bath, you bring a snorkel and all your lures
- You buy yourself two new rods and two new reels at the local bait shop. The sales guy asks "Do you want a rod and reel for your wife?" You respond "Hell yea, that will be the best trade I ever made!"
- You see Kermit the frog on TV and all you can think of is how you'd rig him in the slop at lake ElSalto (personally I go weedless and weightless myself)
T
John J. reply :
* Your favorite song since you were a year old was The Knitty Gritty Dirt Band's "You and me go fishing in the dark" (It was mine...)
* You fish more than you spend time with your wife or girlfriend ("Well I'm going to miss her...")
* All your hats are either from B.A.S.S organization, or contain your favorite or so called "Lucky" baits
* You dream every night of being in the middle of the lake fishing in weeds, timber and cover and land a biggun. (I do EVERY NIGHT!)
* Your signature contains a famous quote from a professional bass fisherman (Check it out!)
FishinDaddy reply :
Here are mine and my wife's ( also a fisherman), all true:
My honeymoon was spent in a cabin on West Point Lake....In July and I have a picture of the 10 pounder I caught but not a picture of my wedding..(the picture to the left)
We bought a bigger boat instead of remodeling the kitchen. (her idea)
She goes to Walmart to get groceries and comes home with 3 bags of renegades. "food for the fish" she explains
You open my garage and it has more rods and baits than the local tackle shop. 13 are mine, 4 are my wifes, 4 are my 14 yr old sons, and 3 are my 11 year old daughter. Oh and not to forget the 5 or so saltwater rods.
We have family outings on the back porch practicing flipping and pitching into flower pots
Thanksgiving vacation is planned for the same lake as the honeymoon.
My calendar has ALL the upcoming tournaments for the year already listed in them...Club, 3 divisions of ABA, charity, Stratos owners, BFL, BASS, HT3, Extreme Series on 3 different lakes.
jb_adams reply :
QuoteYOU MIGHT BE A HARD CORE BASS FISHERMAN IF......- You see Kermit the frog on TV and all you can think of is how you'd rig him in the slop at lake ElSalto (personally I go weedless and weightless myself)
I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that one! That's the best one yet!
Jake. reply :
Quote- You see a fallen tree on the side of the road and think "that would make a great lay-down"
I always do that...
Zel... reply :
If you have more fishing rods than your wife has shoes!
If 90% of the shirts you wear have a picture of a bass on them!
If the engine on your boat is larger than the one in your vehicle!
If getting lucky relates to you catching bass!
If you have more than 365 posts to your name at BassResource.com and you've been a member less than a year!
L-Train reply :
You seriously contemplate quiting your job so you can live the dream. And by living the dream I mean anything that has to do with bass fishing. Haven't done it yet, but it crosses my mind everyday.
Bassin_Fin@tic reply :
QuoteYou seriously contemplate quiting your job so you can live the dream. And by living the dream I mean anything that has to do with bass fishing. Haven't done it yet, but it crosses my mind everyday.
Right on brother.Took the words right outa my mouth 
Bass Smacker reply :
QuoteQuoteYou seriously contemplate quiting your job so you can live the dream. And by living the dream I mean anything that has to do with bass fishing. Haven't done it yet, but it crosses my mind everyday.Right on brother.Took the words right outa my mouth
Always right before I punch in. :-/
Jake P reply :
QuoteYou might be a hardcore bass fisherman if.....-if you dont just power fish but you power eat, shower, walk, pee, breath and just about power everything else
-
i honestly laughed for almost 10 minutes
LooksLikeSinbad reply :
QuoteWe have family outings on the back porch practicing flipping and pitching into flower pots
Wow!!
Siebert Outdoors reply :
QuoteQuoteIf your first hour at work is spent catching up on four different fishing forums.
Guilty as charged....but I only visit one
Hmm, sounds familiar
Your ol lady asks your favorite colors and you say black and blue.
flechero reply :
Quote-when you use a hot tub,aquarium,or swimming pool to try out new lures.
Sinking brush and bricks into your pool to show a buddy the difference in feel, between a fish and the brush/rocks. (my wife was not impressed, but it made his learning curve about 3 casts)
Jake P reply :
when your truck suddenly breaks down every saturday morning right before you have to be at work ;D
RAINCLOUD36 reply :
I'm guilty of almost all on the list but I have one to add. When we were looking to buy a house in N.C. my main concern was having a big enough yard to park the boat I hadn't bought yet.
L-Train reply :
Guilty of that. During the recent move, When house hunting, my first thing to look at was the garage. I would measure it, if it was not long enought for my boat, I wouldn't even look at the rest of the house. My boat takes priority over everything.
Handy reply :
When your friends and family call you on the cell phone and don't ask what you are doing, just what lake you are at and hows the fishing. Or somehow you have a peice of tackle with you at all time. For some reason I carry a small bomber square a with me in my winter coat sans hooks and there seems to be a loose peice of tackle in every vehicle I own.
Paul
dink reply :
A few "trueisms" for me personally:
- if you have ever fished a tournament where the wind chill never got ABOVE zero.
- if you ever made a two hour round trip to fish for under an hour. (Done that one a few times)
- if you ever tied up to a No Wake bouy at night to catch a couple Z's in the midst of your 30-hour marathon outing. (Twice)
F15HGuy reply :
If you have ever asked your pregnant wife to have a c-section a week early because here do date is the same as a tournament for which I have already paid entry fees!
This is true, and almost cost me my boat. :'(
fishing man reply :
"find soft plastic lures and crankbaits in you pockets"
happens to me all the time, actually found some lures in my backpack at school.
The Next KVD reply :
YOU KNOW OUR A HARDCORE BASS FISHERMAN WHEN: (some are serious, some are for fun)
*Your out fishing while everybody else is watching the Super Bowl! (Thats what they made VCRs and DVRs for PEOPLE!!!)
*Your favorite song is "The fishing song" by Brad Praisley
*Your weekends consists of: 15 hrs of fishing, 8 hrs of researching the sport on bassresource.com, and 1 hr of sleep!
*You get up real early in the morining to go fishing so your wife can't stop you and make sure that you are going to the in-laws.
*When a heavy set man walks past you, you see the world record Largemouth walking past you instead and try to tackle him so you can get him certifide!
*You complain when spending $35 to fill up your car that gets 50mpg, but think nothing of it when filling up your truck that gets 11mpg and ur boat with $130 worth of gas. (happens all the time)
*You pray the Rapala "Fishermans Prayer" every time you go fishing.
*You spend 7/8ths of your life on water.
*You blow off your date because your buddy wants you to take him for a ride in that new Bullet w/ a 300hp Merc of yours to prove to him that it can go 100mph!
*You believe that Kevin Vandam is actually a prophet from the bible.
*You don't care that the ice is 6ft thick, ur going fishing!
*75% of your annual income is spent on fishing gear, gas, ect.
*You don't care what the weatherman says, a hurricane ain't going to stop you from fishing.
bassboy1 reply :
WOW!!
I am guilty of quite a bit more than I thought. At least 85% of them, as a quick estimate.
When your room (or house) is a horrible mess, but your fishing closet is perfectly organized, and dusted daily.
When your room (or whole house) is painted bass green (creekside green from the Home Depot color cards if yall are interested) and has that whole bass fishing theme.
When you sign up for a certain class at school, solely because the teacher is an avid bass fisherman, and deer hunter. (The only reason I plan on staying at my school next year, and not moving to a different one)
Catt reply :
Showed up at work at 5:00 am with your boat in tow, hung 100 sheets of sheetrock by 5:00 pm, drove 2 ½ hours to the lake, fished all night, won the tournament, drove 2 ½ hours back to the job site and worked another 12 hour shift.
Took a 72 hour acoustical ceiling contract at McDermott Shipbuilding Co., New Iberia LA; completed the job in 4 days by working 18 hours a day just so you could spend the next 3 days on the lake.
Fished 18 to 20 hours straight many time just cause they are biting
Lucky Craft Man reply :
QuoteYOU MIGHT BE A HARD CORE BASS FISHERMAN IF......- You see Kermit the frog on TV and all you can think of is how you'd rig him in the slop at lake ElSalto (personally I go weedless and weightless myself)
T
That is sooo freakin' funny!!!!
I would say if you dream about your next rod and reel set-up constantly (I can't get my mind off of getting a Daiwa Steez and G Loomis GLX BCR854C)
Matt Fly reply :
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.
Davis reply :
Quote"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. :'(
mayassa reply :
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.
Davis reply :
QuoteWhen 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......
farmpond1 reply :
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
clipper reply :
When your wife starts calling your boat "the other woman".
Alpster reply :
You drive around town for 2 hours to find "RIT" powdered dye to change the color of your pork baits! :
TRUE STORY
Ronnie
Tpayneful reply :
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!
mayassa reply :
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
Sam reply :
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?
guest reply :
when your crossing an international border, and before you go through customs
you eat the bag of senko's you keep hidden for "emergencies".
jiangtao reply :
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ejtaylor822 reply :
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.
Grandpa reply :
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".
BucketmouthAngler13 reply :
when you kiss more bass in a month than you do women in a year
bass109 reply :
If your going to use crankbaits as christmas decorations for your tree.
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