I have been fly fishing for a little while and I have to say that I have gone through a lot of paradigm shifts. At first it was all about catching a fish, then how many can I catch, how many can I eat, how many can I catch and release, how many, how many....
I finally got over that on my last fishing trip. Probably because I caught so many I could not keep track of them all. The real magic did not have to do with the numbers at all. Rather it was the experience of fishing my own tied flies and an original fly by a buddy of mine. I never caught a trout on a dry before and it was unbelievable. Yeah there were a lot of them pooling together and it was kind of like shooting fish in a barrel but who cares? Not me. A close friend and I got to go to our fishing hole and just have fun all day playing "where's the trout" and winning.
This article by Tom Chandler touches on some of my thoughts about the "fishing game". I would have to say that he poses some good questions about why fishing is the way it is and lets you come up with the answers. http://www.troutunderground.com/bodycounters.htm
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