Re: You're really not a fisherman until
- you get mauled by mosquitos. Miscalculate a moon tide and get stuck on a bar. Get knocked on your ass by rogue waves, backwashes, have your waders fill up with water and sand, slide on your ass with a fish on, suffer hypothermia, dehydration, 3rd degree sun burns, barnacle infections and pnuemonia. Taken a dump in your waders. Lose your cleats, plug bag, light, break your rod, reel, Hopefully not your arm, hand, elbow, leg, or back. Scare the hell out of yourself getting off a thin stretch of beach with the waves misting the windsheild because you've stayed 10 minutes too long.
Lose your car keys, cell phone, wife, girlfriend, kids, money, sanity.