Why We Fish

It was Herbert Hoover who said, “Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”

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Sometimes I think I was born too late on the historical timeline. I long for the fine simplicity of a more agrarian age, before the explosion of industry and technology. Today it seems we are all connected, but often not in a way that’s good for the soul. We long to be connected but not shackled. Fishing provides us with a connection to our world and an immersion back into our true selves. It is a meditative form of communion that is deeper than day-to-day existence.

Timothy Moore - Blackmouth Salmon - Puget Sound

I am a fisherman. We fishermen like to read about fishing when we’re not fishing. Truth be told, anything involving hooks, hunts, hoofs, horns, fins, forests, or feathers captures my attention. But why? Why do angling and outdoor pursuits have such a magnetic appeal? The Scottish novelist John Buchan said, “The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” Hope. That’s it, elusive but attainable hope. But that’s not all. It is hope framed by beauty, serenity, sanity, memories, relationship, majesty and more.

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