Well spoken ...it is hard to explain to someone unless they get it too. I always get excited before I go and can hardly get fishing fast enough and stay too long. Same thing hits me just before the opening of duck season(I hunted 57 days out of a 60 day season this year). I'm lucky to have a very understanding wife. She gets a kick out of watching me getting all wound up. Say's the same thing as yours about acting like a kid. I hope those feelings always stay with me. Your right....one of the really good things about crappie.com is all the people that do "get it".