Fishing

Hey I've got an idea:  Let's get in our little bass boat, head out on the lake for couple hours, and hopefully catch some fish.   Now, why not just go the store and buy some quality salmon from Alaska?   Fishing in my experience, has been the biggest time waster, and is usually more frustrating than satisfying.   The last time I went fishing, it was with my friend and his dad.   We went to a slow moving river where there were hundreds of young rainbow trout just waiting to be caught, or so we thought.   We picked a comfortable place on the side of the river, and set up camp.   We opened our tackle boxes and then began to assemble our fishing gear.   We got right at it, and began our little fishing adventure with great anticipation.   About 2 hours into it, none of us had gotten so much as a nibble on any of our baits.   As we moved up stream, we came upon a drain outlet, where hundreds of big trout were gathered for what seemed to be some urgent meeting.   We thought we had cashed in big when we confidently cast our lines into the sea of swarming trout.   It seemed almost too easy.   But our great amazement, we could see the trout looking at the bait as it floated by, probably laughing at our vain efforts to get them with our worms and shiny pieces of metal.   After this "fishing trip", I did a little research on my own, and found out that trout are notoriously smart fish that are not easy to trick.   The time of day has to be just right before they get really hungry, otherwise they just aren't interested.   I came away from that little venture with a very dim view of fishing.   I found to be above all very boring, but also very frustrating.   If it's done for leisure/burning time, that's one thing.   To do it for actually eating what you catch, you would have to be a little off.