Why Do You Fish??
 

Just out of curiousity, why do we fish...Dont come up with "i enjoy it" or "relaxing"....honest answers, is it chasing limits, food, hawgs, trying to figure them out, etcc? What brings you back out to the water trip after trip? Please dont bring this down to the GN with sarcastic comments!!! We know bringing family is the excitement they bring us when they catch but use yourself and/or fishing partner/buddies!

Cuz hunting season doesn't go year round.

Because I like to eat them

X2, plus watching a trout smoke a topwater...

kayak - for the cajun sleigh ride
boat (specs) - the thrill of the payoff after figuring them out and the wall hanger.
boat (bass) - strictly wall hanger

I could use a whole page on this, but the bottom line is I'm flat out addicted!
I've been on the water since I'm 3-4 yrs old, an I am now 32. If I had to stop now just put my name on a bullet. I live to fish, and fish to live, and also get full enjoyment of taking people who don't get to do it as much as I do and watch them succeed at it!
I feel the same about my ducks and deer!

X2

Putting together the puzzle of weather, tide, bait is a big one for me. The visual aesthetics of a bright orange redfish cruising along the oysters or a trout flushing a topwater and even getting a jig a little ways down its throat and frothing the water head-shaking when being reeled in. The sound of a 18 inch plus trout thumping the fiberglass after you've hoisted it in. The wild acrobatics of a trout on a Slpap-Stick with the third set of trebles hooked in the head or near the pec fin.

I could go on and on...:D

As much as I don't fish, I honestly have the most enjoyment when I have someone with me and get to watch them get slammed by a big red or flounder. Make no mistake, I enjoy catching as well but, seeing someone else light up when they get that drag screaming is awesome!

I do not fish to save money on buying fish! LOL!

I like trying to figure them out. I've only been fishing for a few years so I'm really trying to figure all species out but the bass are the most frustrating/rewarding for sure. The specks are fun to try to figure out too but I think they are easier to catch than the bass, eaters not wall hangers, and that's why I fish specks, to eat them.

Because I like to take pictures of my catch and post it on here!

I fish for the trill of it. There is nothing like putting it all toghter and getting something that you cannot see bite the hook. And for reds if i can chase them tailing and then get them to bite. I can do it all day. Then put a new person in the mix and help them catch the same. There is nothing like it. I call it my crack.

i have addictive personality plus just love the outdoors and seeing if i can figure out what they hungrry for.but most of time they are smarter than me.

I fish bc that's what I do. I don't hunt or have any other hobbies and nothing against hunting. Am I the best, NO, but I always have a freezer full of fish! Like someone said earlier, its an addiction!

WHY DO YOU FISH

I guess our creator instilled it in me, way down deep. Been fishing since I was four. Forty six y/o now and couldn't quit if I wanted to. Absolutely ate up with it, in a really good way.

I like to fish cause i truly enjoy it. I fish for bass and redfish alot more than trout. There is something special about casting along a vegitated bank or marsh pond and watching a fish come out the grass or lillies and smoke a bait. It dosent hurt that fish taste good eather.

1-figuring out patterns 2-now that I have a son I love teaching him about the outdoors like my parents and grandparents did and 3-the thrill of setting the hook and 4-some of them taste pretty good.

For food

I fish for the next big one, simple....its an addiction, once one fish is in the box im looking for the next big one, some days its none, some days 2,3,4,5 etc...the harder that trout pulls the better the feeling, that feeling is like medicine, if i could bottle that feeling and take a dose when i needed it, I WOULD QUIT!! Sure i love eating them but, that next cast just might be the next record, thats why i keep returning for more medicine;)

For me it's a lot of reasons.

1) the peace and quiet of a still morning / afternoon on the water, listening in and seeing nature doing her thing.

2) the memory's of childhood days spent catching HUGE trophy class bluegill :)

3) the challenge of outsmarting a bunch of pretty dumb fish.... who can regularly make me look like i don't know my ***** from a hole in the wall.

4) the thrill of running down a lake at wide open throttle, wind whipping in my hair, hunkered a bit behind the center console, praying a floating log don't ruin my day much less my life.

5) The pull of a good fish on the end of the line... not knowing if you and all your techno stuff or the fish will prevail.

6) The satisfaction when it's you.

7) The Dammit All when its the fish that wins...

8) Filets... and HOT GREASE!

9) To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. (wait... that's from something else...:spineyes:)

10) probably most importantly to hang out with you kids / buds / family / friends.