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