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You Might be a Musky Nut....

1. If you hang lures on your Christmas tree as ornaments.

2. If you make a necklace out of split rings.

3. If your idea of a good present is an oversized lure for the wall.

4. If your first successful catch and release changed your life more than the night you lost your virginity.

5. If your always hauling around 12" of wood and aren't afraid to show it to anyone.

6. If you use 80 pound Tuff-Line as a belt.

7. If your child has a Reef Hawg in place of a rubber ducky for the bathtub.

8. If you test out lures in your hot tub in January!

9. If at work you spend more time on Musky websites than working.

10. If your girlfriend asks you to pull out your Tallywacker and you head for the tacklebox.

11. If your on the lake in 20mph wind and 3ft waves, and your wondering why nobody is fishing on such a great day.

12. If you refer to Muskies as "Fish" (i.e. "saw three fish today") as if there are no other species that swims.

13. If your favorite color is "firetiger".

14. If your credit card bill looks like a who's who of tackle dealers, marinas, lodges, restaurants and gas stations.

15. If you find that every day of the week you are wearing something to do with Muskies.

16. If you named your kids or pets Jake, Ernie, Bobbie, Eddie, Teddy, Burt.

17. If the last three books you read were Muskies on the Shield, Crankbait Secrets and Top 50 Muskie Lakes.

18. If your idea of bed time reading is a lake map.

19. If your  lucky Muskie fishing shirt is only 25% percent of what it used to be and you still insist on wearing it.

20. If someone calls you a jerk and your first reaction is thinking "suick" then wonder how the "fish" are biting.

21. If you figure 8 a following Sunfish.

22. If you hate sunshine and pray for rain during your summer vacation.

23. If you can justify spending $30.00 on a lure.

24. If your net is big enough to hold any of the gals in the bar at closing time.

25. If you plan on spending ALOT more at the local Musky Show than you do on your wife/girlfriend's Christmas present.

26. If you've asked your employer if you can spend your flex dollars on suicks and St. Croix' rods.

27. If  you wear the same underwear 6 days straight, because you caught your biggest fish ever wearing them 6 years ago.

28. If during an intimate moment with your significant other, you notice the cloud cover moving in and immediately "fake it".

29. If you always lie about what lake you were fishing and what lure you were using.

30. If you turned down an all expenses paid trip to anywhere because it fell on the same weekend as the musky opener.

31. If you skipped your high school graduation ceremony for the same reason.

32. If you can't feel your fingers or your toes and the snot dripping from your nose has frozen.

33. If you have spent 8hrs fishing and six hours driving to do it.

34. If you break ice with your boat.

35. If your net takes up 1/4 of your boat.

36. If you can't lift your tackle box over your head.

37. If you are the first one on the water and the last one off.

38. If your shoulder, back, arms and hands are sore and you don't care.

39. If your basement looks like a bucktail beauty parlor.

40. If your wife drives a Metro while you upgrade your towing capacity from 7,500 to 8,000 pounds

41. If your wife knows what a bulldog, jackpot and magic maker are.

42. If the live bait you use is bigger than most fish people catch.

43. If you practice casting out of your boat in December and work your lures across the snow.

44. If you get amusement out of getting follows from the cat.

45. If you have baits big enough to take a jet skier down.

46. If your tackle and boat are worth more than your house.

47. If you give your live bait names and talk to them.

48. If all your gear doesn't fit in your Musky room.

49. You have a Musky room.

50. If you teach your mother how to throw a Suick while she stands on the sofa.

51. If your children would rather go on a Musky trip than go to Disney World.

52. You can name more Musky guides than family members

53. You claim you had a great day, yet didn't catch a thing but you "saw a biggun"

54. If you can fish for 14 hours a day for a week and call it a vacation.

55. Your favorite color on your marriage profile is: Holoform Perch

56. You have been married at least twice and didn't know the latest had left..

57. Your left arm is nearly twice the size of your right arm.

58. You speak in term of swirls and follows.

59. You think of Muskies as often as sex.

60. You set the hook in your sleep.

61. When a good day is any day on the water.

62. When you are talking about "Her" and it's not a woman it's a fish.

63. If you realize ALL your friends fish for muskies.

64. You see a front coming in and suddenly "Get Sick" at work.

65. You know what a "sewer" really is.

66. You come to work two heartbeats from death so you don't burn a sick day.

67. You fondle your baits when you aren't on the water.

68. You try and think of Musky things to do when the water gets hard.

69. If being called a "Good Stick" by another man doesn't alarm you.

70. A new rod is more important than new shoes.

71. You've been injured but you don't realize it until the next day.

72. If you can't figure out why people fish for Perch, Crappie, Walleye, Bass, Catfish, Carp....

73. You get up at 5:00 am, fish 14 hours, eat at a gas station, stay up all night drinking, and just do it again.

74. You think Musky slime smells better than your wife's perfume.

75. You say you like "Big Girls"

76. You fish past a dock with female sunbather's and just give a quick glance.

77. You have a son named Jake and a dog named Andrusia.

78. If you have a map of your favorite lake above your bed.

79. If your babies first toy was a Musky bait with the hooks removed.

80. You've ever said "Cass Lake is frozen yet Cave Run is only two days away"

81. You "Borrow"spokes from your kids bike to make a bucktail or leadrer.

82. If you know the numbers to Reeds, Rollie & Helen's & Thorne Bros. without looking them up.

83. You're kids goldfish resembles "Live Bait"

84. Someone needs help with CPR and you get a camera.

85. If you test lures at a pool, work or in the bathtub.

85. When you are more tired after a day of fishing than you have EVER been at work.

86. When you tell someone honestly you've seen the state record.

87. When catching a 10 pound Pike isn't all that exciting.

88. You troll so that you can rest and eat.

89. The holiday picture get developed when you get the first legal of the year.

90. You don't even bother to unhook the trailer from the truck.

91. Your fuel to start the fire is lure making mistakes.

92. When you have a Musky tattoo on your chest.

93. You think about fishing for Muskies every night before bed.

94. You buy a "figertiger" colored sweater for your
girlfriend small dog and the dog is never cold.

95. If you have to dip your rod in the lake every few casts to remove ice.

96. You hate warm spells in the winter because they may turn the fish off.

97. A bright, sunny day pisses you off.

98. You called in sick after returning from vacation.

99. If you call the R & H magazine "The Bible"

100. Your bathroom reading material consists of a few catalogs, Musky Hunter & Esox Angler.

101. If your friend call you names because of how much fishing you get away with.

102. You've been to the hospital to get a hook removed from yourself.

103. Your willing to shovel someone else 100' long driveway so you can get the boat in one last time...