I just don't find it enjoyable or relaxing. I find it boring as hell. Maybe its my ADHD. I like sailing or boating. I definitely like drinking on a boat but the whole act of actually fishing or crabbing or any of that shit doesn't interest me.
Am I alone?
What do you not like that most others do?
However, fishing can be a skillful art/activity and achieving and applying skill can be a very fun time.
It can also be a very physically active time. I've done many, many fishing trips where I've hiked, rowed, and pedaled on a bike (to get to those back woods holes) much farther than a round on a golf course - but it's not a competition. both can be as lazy, or active, as you want to make it.
But it is a whole different gig.
The other element of fly fishing that elevates it in my mind is the necessity to solve problems in order to catch trout. What bugs are hatching? Are the trout hitting dries or emergers? Caddis or Mayflies? Or are they focused on nymphs? What about hoppers or ants? Then you have to figure out how to present the fly drag free. Where to cast from to get the proper drift? All of this problem solving takes place in beautiful settings, places that make you feel the natural world might survive...
Just at the pond near our house, two brothers who are close to 450 pounds each waddle down in their overalls, plunk themselves on the bank and fish for hours on end, drinking and eating from their lunchpails.
I don't think they move their lower limbs for hours at a time.
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Fair enough. I'll let you in on this much - where I'm fishing, there's no 80 year old fat guy in plaid shorts taking a turn. Same can't be said for golf.
Just at the pond near our house, two brothers who are close to 450 pounds each waddle down in their overalls, plunk themselves on the bank and fish for hours on end, drinking and eating from their lunchpails.
I don't think they move their lower limbs for hours at a time.
Yeah, that's the extreme low. On the other end, here's a video of skishing - wet suit fishing off the shore in Montauk.
At best, if you're lucky - maybe your golf cart breaks down and you get in a bit of walking during your golf outing (maybe). For most people who fish, they get in that much walking just getting from parking to access, if they're just plopping down and watching a line soak.
But for people who actively fish, there's no question they get more exercise. They cover more ground. They go to places where they have to hike, paddle or swim to fish from. They have to carry heavier gear, and usually do it under more challenging conditions. There's no paid lackey to carry your bags, or little electric cart to save you the 50 foot walk from one hole to another.
But they don't wear the plaid pants, so they've got that going for them, which is good. Fishing can be lazy, but it's usually not. Golf is moderately more physically intensive than bowling in even it's most extreme cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JceuvqflL4 - ( New Window )
I caught the bug around December and started making striper and fluke teasers in my small apartment using found materials. Then I grabbed some plugs and started 'loading' them (make heavier for better casting)... Then painting them.
Not even dipped one yet. But it's OK. That will come.
If you need an excuse, you are doing it wrong.
I really have to commit to at least an hour drive to get to some better water. Or at least water that fishes more like NH.
That's a nice size LM. As far as getting used to another region to fish I have the same issues. I was used to fishing smaller natural lakes and then when I moved to Kentucky there are a lot of reservoirs that are made from river systems and then they raise and lower the water levels every year which is another whole dimension to deal with. Not sure I will ever get completely used to it but there can be some big fish down here because they have longer growing seasons with the milder winters.
Second, you need to try "going catching" some time. When the fish are in a frenzy and bite is ON there is no better rush. Or catching some BIG ones.
Also like Steve said it's cool when you can fish a new spot and find the fish. Reading the charts, reading the signs nature gives you and presenting a bait that gets a bite is a feeling of accomplishment. Granted you fooled something with a pea sized brain, it still feels good. But to each their own and all :)
"I miss the peace of fishing, like when I was a boy."
-Marko Ramius
Sea of Cortez - ( New Window )
Fishing is one of the activities that is highly recommended for autistic children - actually anywhere on the spectrum.
My buddies son is autistic and I've gone fishing with him a few teams (fresh water even though my preference is salt water, but that's no so relevant). he is meticulous about knowing what species are in the body of water, what lures or bait have the best results, what depths, time of day, etc. and he always crushes it when I've been with him.
I know ADHD is not autism, but many of the treatments are the same.
Of course, there are multiple forms of ADHD, but yes, in numerous forms, fishing is exactly the worst kind of activity for the ADHD mind. As a child/teen, I found it right up there with going to synagogue on a Saturday morning.
It's not just physical activity, it's considered mentally stimulating. Not saying everyone will like it or find it therapeutic, but as fact it is recommended for the condition.
Additionally, it's become common for people who get bored easily to say they have ADHD when they really don't, they're just part of the instant gratification generation or mind set.
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Yeah, it has become common. I guess that means that the two different world class, board certified neurologist/psychiatrists specializing in ADHD patients who marked me at the high end of the ADHD spectrum don't know what the f**k they are talking about. And, I'm 70, so it's hard to identify me as part of the "instant gratification generation or mind set." Uness I was a really late bloomer.
Give me f**king a break. Or don't.
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Fair enough. I'll let you in on this much - where I'm fishing, there's no 80 year old fat guy in plaid shorts taking a turn. Same can't be said for golf.
Just at the pond near our house, two brothers who are close to 450 pounds each waddle down in their overalls, plunk themselves on the bank and fish for hours on end, drinking and eating from their lunchpails.
I don't think they move their lower limbs for hours at a time.
Yeah, that's the extreme low. On the other end, here's a video of skishing - wet suit fishing off the shore in Montauk.
At best, if you're lucky - maybe your golf cart breaks down and you get in a bit of walking during your golf outing (maybe). For most people who fish, they get in that much walking just getting from parking to access, if they're just plopping down and watching a line soak.
But for people who actively fish, there's no question they get more exercise. They cover more ground. They go to places where they have to hike, paddle or swim to fish from. They have to carry heavier gear, and usually do it under more challenging conditions. There's no paid lackey to carry your bags, or little electric cart to save you the 50 foot walk from one hole to another.
But they don't wear the plaid pants, so they've got that going for them, which is good. Fishing can be lazy, but it's usually not. Golf is moderately more physically intensive than bowling in even it's most extreme cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JceuvqflL4 - ( New Window )
If that’s what you honestly believe about golf, then you have no clue about it. You are WAY off.
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Additionally, it's become common for people who get bored easily to say they have ADHD when they really don't, they're just part of the instant gratification generation or mind set.
Yeah, it has become common. I guess that means that the two different world class, board certified neurologist/psychiatrists specializing in ADHD patients who marked me at the high end of the ADHD spectrum don't know what the f**k they are talking about. And, I'm 70, so it's hard to identify me as part of the "instant gratification generation or mind set." Uness I was a really late bloomer.
Give me f**king a break. Or don't.
1) fair point, like I said in my initial response people simply don't like things.
2) I never said you were in that class, maybe the OP is, maybe not, just saying it gets used a lot, and a lot of time when it's not medically diagnosed.
Jeeeeeeesus.
Putting aside commercial fishing or subsistance fishing, I mean regarding pure recreational. I mean, isn't the ideal sentiment 'fuck it, forget that shit, I'm just going fishing'.
Cutting loose. No worries.
I like fishing for being an activity that allows daytime drinking, hanging with the fellas, and minimal conversation. Sometimes you even catch a fish!
Walking 18 holes (yes that's how men play)
It's very active.
Fishing, sure it's active, but unless your fishing knee deep in crazy rivers it's low energy beta male stuff compared to Golf if you wanna compare it like it's some competition
I'm willing to bet you've never done either.