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| So I'm tying the knot on Saturday so today will be my last Muskie venture of be a single man. What are some things you guys to that your wives allow you to chase these stupid fish? |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | She don't tell me what to do cause she don't exist! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | my fishing time improved when we divorced ... |
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| my wife fishes harder then i do...  |
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| Don't listen to those guys. I've been married twenty-three years and she can't wait for me to leave and go fishing. |
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| Compromise! Life's not all about fishing - hopefully you are married because you like to spend time with her. Family comes first and now that will include her family as well. I fish plenty, but it always with my wife's blessing, Good luck |
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Location: Manitowish Waters WI | Prepair a comparable spending account for your wife, mine loves shopping. Hide cash anytime you can for your spending, but still show some on your accounts so she has some to spend. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Wise words from Justin. Try to find balance in your life and hobbies. Try new things together. Muskies ain't goin nowhere and you might just find something you both can be passionate about.
Having said that, you need to warn her now that she's marrying a fisherman and that's who you are and she'll need to deal with it from time to time. |
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Location: Okoboji | doesnt sound like your too thrilled with the marriage idea |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | esox1980 - 5/23/2012 8:12 AM
Prepair a comparable spending account for your wife, mine loves shopping. Hide cash anytime you can for your spending, but still show some on your accounts so she has some to spend.
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Good advice, This is exactly what my wife and I do and it works out perfectly. She gets new shoes and clothes and I get new musky gear... 
who am I kidding she spends more on her fishing gear than I do...
Edited by FAT-SKI 5/23/2012 8:21 AM
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| Don't get me wrong I am excited about it. She's letting me go 4 days before the wedding while she does wedding junk. She goes fishing with me. She doesn't care what we do, as long as we are together. We live together and have a child so not much is gonna change. |
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| My girlfriend likes to fish, so that helps. I do fish more as a single man, but she has her own muskie rod and actually enjoys just being quiet and going fishing all day.
I had an engagement fall apart a few years ago and two weeks later I was on the water fishing in sadness and liberation at 2:30 AM and caught my PB, so that worked out for me in the end. Had I been married, I'd have been at home in bed after an evening watching DVR'd Desperate Housewives or Dancing with the Stars with my "beloved" wife. Thank you God. |
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| First thing you might want to do is change your signature line.
You live together and have a kid so nothing should change....but women are weird. They get married and boom, things could change for her now that you are hitched. Not all do this but it could happen and you could find yourself in a total WTH type of conversation/disagreement. Remember, women are like forests. They are dark and mysterious and wolves hide in them.
Don't let fishing become something that throws your life balance out of whack. Family comes first, not a hobby. If she enjoys sharing that with you, great...if not, great as well. Couples need to have things they do together but also things that make each person an individual. Support her interests and hobbies as much if not more than she supports yours. Do that and you'll be fine. |
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| What's funny is that song that's on my signature is part of the song we are dancing to for our first dance. I'm sure I know the real her by now anyways. So I think it will work out just fine. |
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Location: Detroit River | Before you leave to go fishing just remember to leave her your credit card.
You're lucky that she fishes with you. In 22 years of marriage & dating my wife has fished with me twice.
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Location: MN | ulbian - 5/23/2012 9:29 AM Remember, women are like forests. They are dark and mysterious and wolves hide in them. True indeed :)) |
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| My wife reads all day at the back of the boat and once in a while she snaps a pic of me holding a musky .The marriage part is managable you will get to fish, when the little ones come that's a different story |
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| I'm not saying she's a die hard Muskie fishermen but she came out at 4am with pouring rain and winds and did not complain. We have a 4 year old and she comes on the boat and plays with lures that I give her with no hooks. |
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| If she doesn't fish and doesn't know the full extent of your addiction, you've got a problem. It is not rational to spend a lot of money chasing fish; and then put them back in the water when you catch one. Of course I'm not arguing against catch and release. To a certain extent I favor it. But it is hard for a non-muskie enthusiast to see the sense in fishing just for amusement. I would explain everything up front. And then she'll have to be given things to forgive the wildness. If money is an issue in the household, she is almost sure to object. So work hard. Just remember that good wives are worth more than any fish. |
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Location: oswego, il | Toothy, I have seen previous reports of you and your fiance fishing. It looks like she supports and participates. Compromise when necessary but i dont think you will skip a beat. |
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| she's seen me catch some and she has raised a few and she can't wait to catch one, and money is NOT an issue in our household.
Todd I am Luke Armitage from frvmuskie the new member. Yeah and the compromise that she considers is me taking her on a ride on the motorcycle. So its bot really compromising. Haha |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | toothycritter88 - 5/23/2012 8:19 AM
She's letting me go
ouch ... |
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Location: Smith Creek | The trick is to make her believe she has a choice in the matter. |
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| Do what I did.
Take her out on the #*#*tiest windy cold rainy day. After that? well, she'll either want to go with you every time you go (good and bad) or she'll only want to fish on nice days, and when the weather is bad she'll look at you and say "no thanks honey. You go ahead, have fun!"
I do sometimes wish I could go fishing with the guys or on my own, but any woman who will be out there casting in 35MPH winds battling rain and 4 footers DESERVES to go fishing. |
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Location: Minnesota | I do one of two things:
1. I try to act as annoying as possible all week. By the time the weekend comes, she's happy to have me out of the house for the day.
2. I do something really special for her or work really hard at something around the house.
Both methods work equally well at different times. The key is knowing when to use which one. Of course, that was before we had a kid. Things are going to be different now. |
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| Esoxaddict: she's already been out there when it was 50 degrees pouring rain and 30mph and she casted her ass off. So when I go and age wants to go, of course hop in the truck. Weather she actually likes it or doesn't she humors me which is just perfect in my book. Because I humor her when I pretence to care about what so and so said to so and so at work today. She doesn't have a choice if I want to go ill go, but its if she's mad or upset is what I mainly care about because I don't want to walk into a war zone when I get home after not catching a fish. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | All ya have to do is say, "Hey babay, what ya feel like doing tonight?" in your best, yeah lets get it on voice. That usually has her saying, shouldn't you be fishing? It's a new moon. |
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Location: Apple Valley | Hunter4 - 5/23/2012 7:58 AM
Don't listen to those guys. I've been married twenty-three years and she can't wait for me to leave and go fishing.
Lol! So true. Ive been married for 17 years and my wife always wants me to go fishing to get me out of the house!
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| Fishing time (and equipment) should be documented in the prenup. 
Brian
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| tuffy1 - 5/23/2012 11:36 AM
All ya have to do is say, "Hey babay, what ya feel like doing tonight?" in your best, yeah lets get it on voice. That usually has her saying, shouldn't you be fishing? It's a new moon. ;)
Man I actually laughed out loud when I read this!! Too bad she still like to get it on! For now at least, but ill keep that in my back pocket for a new moon phase.
Edited by toothycritter88 5/23/2012 12:54 PM
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