Why do we fish?

[DaveKile]

Fishing beats watching Dr Phil or Oprah.....

I now can only see you tying flies this winter with Oprah on the TV. Sad.

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

Fishing is good medicine for seasonal blues. A good day of catching fish keeps me in better spirits through the stretches we go through when the sun doesn't seem to shine for weeks at a time.

 

[Bamboozle]

Because it gives me an opportunity to smoke cigars and sip whisky from a flask... 😉

No one in my family fished, so a few sunnies brought home in a bucket by neighbors and seeing some pumpkin seeds suspended in a somewhat local reservoir is probably what memorized me into deciding I HAD to go fishing.

After being gifted a used casting rod & reel, I read everything I could find and picked the brains of the clerks at the local sporting stores when I bought the stuff I thought I needed. A short time later, I was invited by some experienced junior high school buddies to take public transportation (bus) one Sunday morning to a not-so-local reservoir.

The anticipation the night before was like Christmas on steroids so it was easy to get up to meet my friends around 4:30 am, catch the bus and somehow catch a fish on my first outing. With the memories of that and a few other firsts; fast forward a few decades I still get that same thrill whether its a trout or a suspended pumpkin seed.

FWIW - I was a somewhat delinquent "yoot"on that first outing and was off by myself when I caught that first fish. Coincidentally, I sipping my share of a bottle of cheap wine I went "in" on for the occasion and I smoked cigarettes...

That may explain why fishing, alcohol & tobacco still go together in my mind... 😎

 

[The Rodfather]

I was watching a documentary once about flyfishing and the guy explained it this way.

When people ask me why I fly fish, I tell them : "The places it takes me and the people I meet along the way"

That has stuck with me and is a really good explanation.

 

[Striperbobby]

We are all adrenaline junkies and fly fishing is our fix! There are a lot worse things we could be doing, at least that’s what I tell my wife!

 

[dryflyguy]

Ran into a lady along a stream one day.
And she asked me how the fishing was.
I said it was good.
Then she asked what I was using, and I showed her.
To which she replied - "You're one of them there bug fishermen"!
Never forgot that....

 

[HoboWithAFlyRod]

I grew up swimming competitively and I admire animals that live in water.

 

[nd1001]

Fishing can be both relaxing and engaging. When I fish, I experience excitement but also leave the stream feeling recharged.

 

[Swattie87]

All I can say is there is a noticeable difference in my disposition on Sunday evenings when I’ve fished that weekend, versus weekends I haven’t.

If you combo a weekend with no fishing (this one) and the Suckers (Steelers) playing like they did yesterday, and it’s a almost a guarantee of me having a malodorous mood on Sunday night.

 

[GoldenRfly]

I wear a Stetson when I fish and kayak.
I love water and the woods.
I climb up & down embankments (which my wife wouldn’t approve of).
I experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but the defeats always make me appreciate the thrills and the lessons for the next time.
Most of all, at 60+ … I feel like a 10 year old kid every time I hook one.