Signs you have spent a lot of hours on the water

[RumRiverRat]

I have logged roughly 40 hours in a boat in the last 4 days.

I am sitting typing this and getting the sensation that I am gently rocking in a boat.

It is weird.

[tunrevir]

I actually get a callous on the ring finger of my right hand, near the knuckle,from holding the spinning rod and reel Must mean I'm getting plenty of time on the water I have had the rocking boat sensation after spending a day on Lake Michigan in the swells.

Tunrevir~

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I know a guy that spent a week camping. His first night home, he staggered out of bed half asleep and peed in the corner of the bedroom, thinking he was still camping

[deadeye]

^LMAO! That is hilarious.

I have had the rocking sensation before. Its kind of odd. I was sort of freaked out for a minute but a couple stiff Jack and cokes took care of it. Considering the problem is too much time in a boat I couldn't complain though .

[whitebassman]

Raccoon eyes....from wearing polarized sunglasses too much!

[kc0myy]

a good think farmers tan from being out in the sun too long.

[shizzy]

Raccoon eyes....from wearing polarized sunglasses too much!

I'm rather proud of my racoon eyes each summer......

[Finlander]

I had racoon eyes when I got married in June! So I was told!

[Tator2k]

Raccoon eyes and a pale white top of the head.

[Daze Off]

Sandal feet - deep tan, white, deep tan, white....

[Palerider77]

The rocking sensation and the complete absence of stress.

[Deitz Dittrich]

If your a bass guy--- a scun up thumb!!! Yeah Baby!!! you know it was a good day then.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Sunburnt bald head.

[Jim Uran]

Bass thumb, and an achy rod wrist. Two shades darker, and a dirty boat!!!

[Fisherman45]

Bass Thumb and weeds all over the boat.

Bob

[Neighbor_guy]

I seem to have managed to sun-burn the pale pastie white out of my feet.. ....

which did not hurt all that bad this weekend while I was barefoot, but with full 8" Red Wings on.....

[anchor man]

a dark blue visor, that is now sun faded to near white. along with a hodge podge of pop cans, water bottles, weeds, mud, sand and dog hair all over the boat. Time for a clean out

[Nick Kuhn]

Bass thumb? I've never heard of such a condition before, unless you mean dyeing your thumb green with braided line. Otherwise it sounds like some wimpy skin.

The easiest way to tell for me is how disorganized my tackle gets. I'll spend time sorting things before a trip only to have a rats nest of hooks n lures by the time I'm done.

[bassfshin24]

sunglasses tan line that takes all fall and most of the winter to get rid of and by the time its gone spring fishing is here and its back again

[kevfish1]

The strong urge to put away the boat and get the ice house ready

[mr_jman]

My whole upper body a nice shade of red by the time I got home from an 8 hour day of fishing in 90+ degree weather with no clouds in the sky. Forgot the sunscreen but thought getting a tan would be nice. I paid for that little adventure for a very long painful aloe vera filled week! Got good and burned and the red turned back to white so NOT WORTH IT!

[Deitz Dittrich]

Bass thumb? I've never heard of such a condition before, unless you mean dyeing your thumb green with braided line. Otherwise it sounds like some wimpy skin.

The easiest way to tell for me is how disorganized my tackle gets. I'll spend time sorting things before a trip only to have a rats nest of hooks n lures by the time I'm done.

If you do not know what bass thumb is.. Then you have not had a great day of bass fishing. I dont think I have wimpy skin, but i have needed a number of baindaids to stop bleedding and scars... but then again, my top 3 days of fishing are 228, 195, 142 for number of bass in a day.

[Big A]

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[Nick Kuhn]

I caught enough fish this weekend that I stopped counting and didn't even bother lifting the smaller fish over the side of the boat most of the time I had caught so many. Still my thumbs are fine, and a fair percentage of my fish were toothy and misbehaving (in fact I had to buy a new bag for my muskie net today cuz I had one cut a hole in my old net bag).

I think I know what you mean though back when I took bullheads off by lipping them. But bullheads have much rougher mouths and tend to bite, bass do not.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Bad case of boat back. I need a self inflating PFD so the boat seat fits me better.