You jump out of bed in the middle on the night because you heard a bleep in your dream, then realise you are at home and the duvet is on the floor.

Also been putting the syndicate padlock combination into my shed lock more than once this week.

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Hahaha I've been there many times over the years.

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I should modify a delkin into an alarm clock. Workday mornings I struggle waking up, snooze too often and sleep through alarms..........whereas a coupe of single bleeps on a buzzer and I'm up like a f****** shot, alert and ready to go (ish) 😂

😂 I've had the jumping out of bed to a dream beep before but it's usually when I havnt been for to long 😂

I used to wake bolt up right by the sound of the sparrows outside my bedroom window mimicking an optonic..

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There not sparrows there bite alarm birds. Heard them around quite a few lakes.

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Omg. I thought it was just me. I've even called them bite alarm birds to my mate. Who thought I was mental.

I think the Les Bamford conversion destroyed my sleep 😁 an high pitched sound has me jumping in my sleep
Actually said this to Les nearly 30 years ago when he lived near Gospel Oak

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I've had that dream and found myself in the middle of the bedroom trying to strike a non- existant rod. However it was a long time ago when I was fishing a lot more than now.

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Can you get Delkim and Fox ring tones for your phone still? Set that as your alarm wake up on your phone

..., when your toenails start to disintegrate (or shall we say ferment to make it sound extra carpy) from always wearing boots.

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You aren't mental Wayne, me and Dan have been hearing them for many years.... 😂

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That's the steroids mate 😂

I often jump at home hearing the sound of a beep after a night on the bank. Last year I paid for fuel but the contactless wouldn't work so had to enter my pin. Entered the syndicate padlock code twice 🤦🏼‍♂️

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That made me chuckle.

Or LOL, as younger folks say.

In my early fishing Carp years the Mrs used to give me a right funny look when I'd come home from a longer session abroad and could hear alarms and alarm birds. Then she started to come with us and it happened to her too I used to love saying, no didn't hear a thing 🤣

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Many years ago, before I could afford alarms, used to stay awake all night watching watching washup liquid tops twitching. Would be pretty twitchy myself. So, fast asleep, wife wasn't too happy i was trying to remove a hook out of her, needless to say she didn't accept my explanation. She didn't accept my explanation. Needless to say, no longer with that one. Then you really know this "hobby" has become a bit all consuming.

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. . .not sure whether its too much or too little fishing, but I have a re-occurring anxiety dream about a trip to a Lake in France . . .Lake is stunning but when we get there its pretty much drained - has a couple of puddles in the middle that everyone has to cast to . . forced to camp / fish the puddles all week with the knowledge that there's nothing in the lake but mud!

(PS. This has no reference whatsoever to a well know French fishery that I've never fished but has received recent poor reviews)

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When you lock yourself in your bedroom for a week late May and come out a week later looking very tatty and beat up after your annual ritual.
Good way to lose weight, though.

You buy a new house with a large kitchen to please the wife but you really needed the double garage for next seasons plans

The Mrs says we need a decent cool bag for summer family days out and Cotswold Aquarius immediately comes to mind.( in DPM).

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Done that once but it felt so real it actually took me a few seconds before I realised where I was lol

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That was so funny.....Last year I paid for fuel but the contactless wouldn't work so had to enter my pin.
Entered the syndicate padlock code twice

You can't go fishing too much. Not going fishing enough is the problem.

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When your wife divorces you 😳

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Crikey that's a bit dark


Although it does make me wish I'd fished more before I married my ex. Could have saved a lot of grief!

When your wife is putting on lippy and perfume just as you exit the front door for for a 3 day session. .

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Or when YOU are applying lippy and perfume as you exit for a 3 day session...

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That's not funny. It happened to me. Talk about learning the hard way. Relationships first now. Fishing a very poor second.

When you walk into an unlit room and feel for your headtorch button which isn't there instead of the light switch

Happened to me after a long session

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Know a few people that's happened to.

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Sorry bud

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Why was it you popping around

I think if your fishing so much your mrs runs of with the milkman you've got serious issues Especially if your blanking

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I woke up to a smoke alarm at home and thought that I had a run!

In bed one morning (mid 80's) the digital alarm clock burst into life, I spun round to grab the non existent rod grabbed the wife, she screamed (very loud) frightened the f****** life out of me

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I keep asking the missus if we can have the bedroom door letterbox style just in case 😂

Due to Covid-19 and my business being closed (i own a pub in Belgium) i'm fishing an average of at least 3 nights a week for the last 2 months.
Last friday the family and i were all watching tele and i was starting to doze off when one of my daughters got a message on her phone with a bleeping sound!
Suddenly i jumped out of the sofa shouting "we're in!!!" looking for my rods and leaving the rest of my family in tears!

It was mid winter and the mrs purchased some bird food seed on the weekly shop.

I stood at the back door and catapulted a few pouch fulls on to the back lawn.

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Cant remember what water I was fishing, but the starlings were v good imitators..they were known as Delkim birds.
Used to have the Delk on full warble as my ring tone. It went off once when I was in Leslies... the looks I got were priceless.. Needless to say I saw the error of my ways and changed it... To A Neville...

You know when you have been fishing too much when you stop constantly thinking about buying more fishing tackle.

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I did the same thing the other night about five times except the bleep was my smoke alarm battery going flat.