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.