Married, or single

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

ok, I've just got to ask this question: those of you that post about having the newest boats, electronics and seem to get out to fish 4 days a week, are you married, or single?

If married, are there any more like her back home

[harvey lee]

Married for 35 years.

No issues with going hunting or fishing when I please. I hunt about 6 weeks total in the fall and fish many day all summer and winter.

Maybe she just likes to see me go.

[croixflats]

If there are more back home I dont think you will get an answer just because their there for back ups.

[Loose]

Been married for two years, with two young kids, I get to get a new boat this spring. Got My days out fishin bumped up from 2 days a week to 3 days without the wife and kids!

[JohnMickish]

Married. Find one with an education, drive and a taste for nice things. It helps if she likes to fish and wants to be comfortable and dry on the water. For every $200 pair of shoes she has I have a $200 rod. For every $100 pair of slacks she has I have a $200 reel. You get the picture, and her closet is 7 feet wide!

[Eric Wettschreck]

Married my entire adult life.

Most of my hunting/fishing gear is far from new. I pretty much built my 79 Starcraft and it's motor. Collected this that and the other thing over the years. Started small and built up from there.

Find a down home gal that likes to fish, knows how to butcher a deer, and isn't shy about bathing naked in the lake and you'll be set for life.

[TR21HP]

Married for 38 years and I can't go fishing without her. I firmly believe she likes to fish even more than I do which is bordering on a full fledged addiction. Unfortunately, no one I knowback home like her.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm married, and while I don't have the newest and best, I probably wouldn't even if I was single. Within reason, I buy what I want. She plays volleyball, softball, etc, and I fish when I want. If I wanted to fish more, I would, but I also enjoy spending time at home (and on the water) with her and the dog.

[Matt C]

Married, 10 years. 2 kids, ages 6 and 8. They love getting out on the boat with me as much as possible and I love having their company!

It was my wife that suggested upgrading to a 2009 20 footer! from my 2006 18 footer! Dang I love that woman!

[Dothedew]

Been married for 15 years... at first it was a pain to go out but as time went by wifey become more supportive. Now days i can go anytime i want because she understands that we all need time to ourselves.

[Ed Carlson]

You forgot the third category....Happily Divorced.

I'm not so sure if Single should not be better reclassified as....Successfully Single as well.

[tacklejunkie]

Married.

My wife fishes with me off and on but never complained about my fishing habit.

It was my wife who suggested I upgrade to a bigger boat several years ago as my kids got older and bigger

[DonBo]

and she said "Why would you want to put that new motor on that crappy old boat? Why don't you just get this whole new package?"

And the only time she's even been it is when I offer to buy dinner "over there" on the other side of the lake.

[MuskieJunkie]

Married but that's not what holds me back from going fishing, it's the kids. However soon they'll be old enough to go with me, then it'll be game on. I have big plans for when those boys grow up....

[Hafnutz]

39 years later..I think this marriage might make it. Got more toys than I could ever imagine, all the time off I want... She has the same. Why I'd have to be hafnutz to give this up!

[cold one sd]

I've been married for 38 years to a gal that loves to fish in summer, but won't ice fish. When I bought my new boat I was talking about moving my 15 hp 4 stroke between my 14 footer and my 18 1/2' for a kicker and she asked me why I didn't just put a kicker on the new boat. When I came to again, I had one put on. She is showing some interest in ice fishing this winter and there is too much snow to get the wheel house on the ice.

[BoxMN]

Married for about 10 years, and while she doesn't get up early to go with me (she did BEFORE we got married, haha!) she still will go summer fishing and grouse hunting with me. She also just shakes her head when I come home with something new, and thinks I have a sickness...

Also, even before we were married, she is the one who convinced me to buy my dream bike, my (then) new truck, my first house, the cabin... she is the gas pedal and I am the brake usually.

but when I came home from NoDak and told her I bought a store (I really did...) she just laughed at me again. I can't and won't complain, best thing ever, and mine came with step kids, and my stepson and grandkids are now some of my best hunting and fishing partners. I hit the jackpot...

[opsirc]

married 29 years. like someone said most of my stuff is older, but I still have fun with it. She loves to go out unto Lake superior in the summer, or fish the smaller lakes. not much for ice fishing, but does not mind me going.

[tcwin]

ok, I've just got to ask this question: those of you that post about having the newest boats, electronics and seem to get out to fish 4 days a week, are you married, or single?

Although I do not fit all of your criteria above. Happily married for 10 years and she loves to fish as much, if not more than I do. She is the one that pushed me for the bigger, newer boat and more advanced electronics.

Wouldn't trade her for anything.

[Esox_Magnum]

Married, untill my muskie addiction my wife fished as much as me, about 100 days a year, she guts my deer when we deer hunt, but she doensn't get into the muskies so now I fish 140 days a year. She gets spring and winter, and 3-4 times a year she will come out for an evening for muskies. Got back into snowmobiling this winter, getting her warmed up to having her own so we can do something together other than fish and sit in front of the TV.

[peerchking]

My wife only gets made if I don't take her with. Wednesday we were out in the fishhouse when out of the blue she handed me her phone and said make one more reservation for lake of the woods.DONE going first week in March.

[delmuts]

My soon to be wife,( next month we will fix that! only gets upset if she can't go along. If i'm casting( which i do alot!) she just sits back and enjoys the time together and being on the water.( she likes to fish over the side with bait) She also has a trailer on the back waters of the Miss.

Being a single parent, money has always been tight. With both kids graduating college this year, and having jobs, i hope they will soon take over the car expenses, and such. This should boost my budget. I like quality equipement, but have to save in order to have it. I put $5 a week, the money from pop bottles, and all my loose change into my toy fund. I bought a new reel at Christmas time and i'm saving for a rod to go with it. My boat is a 1990 ranger fisherman in excellant shape and is great for how i fish. Older , but a nice ride!

I salute the people that have the bigger, faster boats , as long as they can afford them. I just wave as they go by me!

[Northlander]

ok, I've just got to ask this question: those of you that post about having the newest boats, electronics and seem to get out to fish 4 days a week, are you married, or single?

If married, are there any more like her back home

Im married and no she is 1 one of a kind. She has to be to put up with me being gone all the time. I just wonder why the Schwans Truck is always out front and I have no ice cream or steaks to eat.

[delmuts]

" I just wonder why the Schwans Truck is always out front and I have no ice cream or steaks to eat."

oh!oooooh!!!

[croixflats]

ok, I've just got to ask this question: those of you that post about having the newest boats, electronics and seem to get out to fish 4 days a week, are you married, or single?

If married, are there any more like her back home

See,I told you they would not say if there are more back home.

[Back2Dakota]

Northlander-What ever keeps her happy! For the rest of the post it dont matter if you go fishing every day or have the latest and greatest if the other half is fuggly and built like a building so that should be factored in also! If you hunt and fish and you find a woman that you know will get bent out of shape if you continue to do what ya love-move on. But if you plan on always being gone and barely doing stuff she enjoys outside of fishing/hunting why get married?Ya its great when she comes along but ya gotta have guy weekends with your buds every so often. You only live once. 5'8"..size zero..and beautiful been together since we were 15 so almost 20 years and going strong.