So ya think you're Hardcore?

[DarkSkies]

Fished all night, no sleep?
Got pounded on the rocks and sand?
Got sore feet from the walking ya did?
Smelly waders from wiping your bloody bunker stinkin hands on them all night, or wearing the waders 3 nights in a row...bunker and stale pizz, awesome! :eek:

Yeah, so what? :rolleyes:

Who's hardcore enough that ya freaked out your wife or girlfriend with some of your fishin behavior?
Anyone ever get divorced over it?


Let's hear some stuff, let's hear those stories.

[DarkSkies]

I got a good friend, brother from another mother, hardcore fishin bud to the max. There ain't anyplace he won't go, or crazy technique he won't try, to get a fish.

When he was first dating his wife, and they were talkin about getting married, he said:

"Listen there's one thing ya gotta understand about me,
I don't hang in the go-go bars. I'm not gonna be shagging that waitress from the diner, on the side, if ya marry me. I don't gamble at the casinos all night...but I FISH!"
She: "of course I understand that you fish, I'm ok with that and will still feel the same way when we're married. That's fine with me."
He: " No, you don't understand, I FISH! From the moment the bass are here in the Spring to the time when the last one leaves in the late Fall, that's all I wanna do. That won't change when we're married. I just want you to be aware of that. "
She: "Not a problem"



Fast forward to after they've been married 5 years:
He's out fishin, catches a 30. Even though he had his limit, the bite was hot, and he still wanted to C&R the fish and stay in on the action till it was done.

He takes the fish home, throws it in the bathtub, puts ice on it, goes back out.

An hour later his wife came home and found the fish in the bathtub. She worked all day and wanted to come home and take a shower, saw the fish, freaked, and called him on his cell phone screaming:
"Paulie, how did that fish get in my bathtub, and when the hell are you coming home to take it out.,,I want to take a shower!!" :burn:



I know you all have some more stories or examples, let's hear em. :eek:

[surfstix1963]

When he was first dating his wife, and they were talkin about getting married, he said:

"Listen there's one thing ya gotta understand about me,
I don't hang in the go-go bars. I'm not gonna be shagging that waitress from the diner, on the side, if ya marry me. I don't gamble at the casinos all night...but I FISH!"
She: "of course I understand that you fish, I'm ok with that and will still feel the same way when we're married. That's fine with me."
He: " No, you don't understand, I FISH! From the moment the bass are here in the Spring to the time when the last one leaves in the late Fall, that's all I wanna do. That won't change when we're married. I just want you to be aware of that. "
She: "Not a problem"


I had that same exact conversation w/my present day wife before we got engaged the 2 stipulations were I FISH and you have to love my kids as much as I do or no dice.On both occasions it has worked out for me great I'm not hardcore like I used to be when I was younger I now fish for the enjoyment of it I still set goals but don't go crazy after them if its meant to be it will happen but I know that 40 and 50 lber. I want will go back I'm a little smarter now and I don't want to hump that thing down the beach anyway. My wife can hold her own fishing she is an amazing diamond jigger and beats up the fluke off the beach she don't fish as much as I do but when she does she usually makes me look like an idiot I guess she was one student that actually listened to me too good.I don't blow off family obligations anymore if something needs to be done I do it before I am planning to fish and it makes life much more simple and this marriage is working just fine.1st. one not so good and I cannot say I'm sorry it is over I am much happier now.:plastered:

[dogfish]

I was using sandworms and bought a few dozen. I had to refrigerate the ones I had left over and the box was destroyed. I used a chinese food rice box we had laying around and put them in the refrig. The wife was not to happy when she opened it.:scared:

[speedy]

I was using sandworms and bought a few dozen. I had to refrigerate the ones I had left over and the box was destroyed. I used a chinese food rice box we had laying around and put them in the refrig. The wife was not to happy when she opened it.:scared:

i had some clams from fishing one day so i took they home and deshelled them and salted them the cat was going nuts :wow: as i was cleaning them for the nexted day fishing i put them in a tub in frig i had the door open to the frig for two min. then it was time to feed the cats about 10 min. later i could not find tiger my cat:huh: i looked every were no tiger i said to the wife did you see tiger she said no i said ooooo sh-t :scared: i ran to the frig and opened the door and there by the clams was tiger licking the tub of clums now thats one cool kitty lol:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: p.s. tiger was 8 months old

[BassBuddah]

i said to the wife did you see tiger she said no i said ooooo sh-t :scared: i ran to the frig and opened the door and there by the clams was tiger licking the tub of clums now thats one cool kitty lol:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: p.s. tiger was 8 months old

You almost had a kitten-popsicle.:d

[speedy]

You almost had a kitten-popsicle.:d

no he was a tuff cat we had him 18 years we lost him this year :( sorry to say (R.I.P) tiger :waaah:

[DarkSkies]

Yeah, when you hear about those guys with 2 cats sometimes you wonder ... :laugh:
but today after some of those stories ya told me about Tiger and Jigs, they sound like they were pretty cool. :thumbsup:

Your new one sounds just as crazy, good luck with him. :cool:

[speedy]

yup they where great pets (R.I.P)

[dogfish]

There was one spring season where I fished a lot, just about every night. I was using mackerel, and tossed them back in an iced up cooler when I was done. Or so I thought.
I was driving around in the buggy for a week, there was a certain blood and fish smell. I thought it was because I didn't wash the cooler, and that was where the blood came from.

As it got real hot and sunny one day, the smell got worse. I was fishing mackerel heads and chunks. Kept the heads separate in a sealed bag.

Well, it turns out one of the heads came out of the bag one night when I came back to put the bag in the cooler. I was so tired I didn't notice. The flies found it, and went to town. By the time I located the rotting, oozing head in the corner down by the side of the seat, it was home to a generation of maggots, packed like immigrants in a rooming house. It wasn't a pretty site.:upck:

Took me awhile to clean that one up and get the stank out of the buggy. :plastered:

[nitestrikes]

Took me awhile to clean that one up and get the stank out of the buggy. :plastered:

I'm assuming your wife never drives in that with you. Women tend to have a tad more sensibility to smell than we do.;)

[DarkSkies]

Met Martin and his crew the other day, they fish 12 months a year. :fishing: :thumbsup:

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