Am I the only one?

[Dylan33]

I am curious if I am totally out of my mind and there is something seriously wrong with me, or if anyone else does this too....

So, when I am on a road trip, or driving to work, or really anytime i'm in the car on the highway, i find myself looking at the landscape- fields, ditches, hills, etc and find myself thinking "this would be some pretty good structure, I could see the walleyes stacking up right there...ooohh...that would be a perfect spot to get on some crappies, that ditch is a good 10 feet deep, the smallies should be hanging out down there just off the ledge, etc etc etc..."

So, have I completely gone off the deep end? (pun entended) My wife thinks I have a problem. Can i possibly be alone in this? Is anyone else so obsessed with fishing that they notice structure where there is no water?

Thanks

Dylan

[Desperado]

you're never the only one

[Desperado]

just think if you would have been driving around Devils Lake ND 20 yrs ago with that mindset, you would now have a great mental map of some phenomenal fishing structure

[c0untryf1sh3r]

I do that when I get a few hours north of Saint Cloud. Down here in Renville county all we got is field after field after field. Unless I cruise the river bottom then my mind starts to wander.

[TruthWalleyes]

I do this as well

Something very wrong in my head!!

[Stick in Mud]

I do it, too. I'm not aware of any twelve-step programs, however, so I think we're all stuck with it.

[Sifty]

Been there, I have always said "boy that lake looks like it would be nice to try out"

This year some of those lakes are getting hit.

Sifty

[Rick G]

You guys are funny, when I see hills,trees and fields I'm lookin' for deer, pheasant's and turkey's

[Sonicrunch]

I'm watching the road in front of me and seeing an inattentive driver swerving all over the road while he is looking at the landscape.

[bullhead master]

do it all the time. especially on trips going up north

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I'm watching the road in front of me and seeing an inattentive driver swerving all over the road while he is looking at the landscape.

Ha!

[DARK30]

A few thousand years ago, all that landscape was under water

I like to imagine what some rivers and lakes would look like empty....might find some interesting stuff too.

[Scott M]

I do the same thing but for wetlands and prairies in the southern 1/2 of Minnesota. "Wow, that washout was a slough, same for that one...that treeline is the old lake edge." Makes a guy depressed to know Minnesota was paradise lost for small game and waterfowl.

[Fish Head]

I am curious if I am totally out of my mind and there is something seriously wrong with me, or if anyone else does this too....

So, when I am on a road trip, or driving to work, or really anytime i'm in the car on the highway, i find myself looking at the landscape- fields, ditches, hills, etc and find myself thinking "this would be some pretty good structure, I could see the walleyes stacking up right there...ooohh...that would be a perfect spot to get on some crappies, that ditch is a good 10 feet deep, the smallies should be hanging out down there just off the ledge, etc etc etc..."

So, have I completely gone off the deep end? (pun entended) My wife thinks I have a problem. Can i possibly be alone in this? Is anyone else so obsessed with fishing that they notice structure where there is no water?

I've done that since I was about 10 years old.

[BLACKJACK]

You guys are funny, when I see hills,trees and fields I'm lookin' for deer, pheasant's and turkey's

Same here, never thought of it as lake structure??!

[toughguy]

Makes a guy depressed to know Minnesota was paradise lost for small game and waterfowl.

....and mosquitoes. My grandpa told us horror stories of how terrible the mosquitoes were in South Central MN in the 1910s and 1920s.

[Stick500]

I look at all the terrain too but since I am a dirt biker I look at everything as a cool jump!

Never thought about fish structure before....

[peerchking]

a few years ago I went to my sister and brother inlaws place over in webster S.D. we fished on an old road then drift right into the ditch,then fished by an old farm site then fished by a grove of tree's. it was pretty cool fishing that kind of strcture.kind of wild how that water rose so fast and high and took over all that land. just watch out for the barbed wire along the ditches

you are not alone

[pikerliker]

Ive done the same thing AND been chastised by the wife for spotting deer a mile off the road, pointing out an eagle soaring overhead, etc when I should be "watching the road".