This man just became our new personal hero. We’ve probably all had those moments where you wonder whether the amount of time you spend fishing might be bordering on the unhealthy, whether if you spent as much time applying yourself to your work as we did daydreaming about fishing, how much better of you might be. Well, Montauk striper guide Bill Wetzel is in another league. This is a man who:

1. Dreams about fishing in mud puddles…

2. Only stops thinking about fishing when he’s thinking about his family. And even then…

3. Was actually taken aside by his friends for a quiet word when they thought he was losing touch with reality…

4. Crawls out of his sick bed to go fishing, lest he miss a tide…

5. Is willing to live like a tramp if that’s what it takes to be in the right place at the right time. And that means… well, you can find out for yourself what it means…