Same here.....i just love to fish.

THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE IS NOT ENOUGH WATER IN THE LAKES.

For sure I spent more time fishing as my marriage was failing. The D was a long time coming and I just couldn't stand to be around her. I also got a bunch of time in with my son in those days and he chose to stay with me when the end did come. He's grown now, I'm remarried and still love to fish though not as often since the need for escape is gone.

I can't say that I fish to hide my problems. I can say that fishing makes the day a lot more enjoyable. I think about the little tap, tap, thump on a Texas rig, the bass knocking my topwater up in the air, the bass hammering a spinnerbait. Fishing has also introduced me to some of my best friends on the BassGrabbers trail. Can't get enough fishing!!!!

It is the thrill of the hunt. Whether it's big bluegills on my ultra light fly rod or sand bass in the creek, channel cats, trout or salt water species, I enjoy locating them and then figuring out what works and then feeling that thump on the end of the line. The sport is a great stress reliever.

I believe it is better to get your wife or girlfriend involved in fishing rather than give it up. You may as well lay me in the grave if I had to give up fishing.

Fishing is who I am, not what I do.

Too much talk about feelings and problems goin on here.

I fish because my primal male urges tell me to.

Fishing is Therapy. Fishing is spiritual. Fishing gets me out of the house, and away from the keyboard. To directly answer the poster's questions, yes I -also- fish to get away from the [censored]/stress in my life. Whether it's kids, wife, finances, job...whatever...I think everyone fishes because it makes them happy. Fishing can make you happy for a lot of reasons (the tick at the end of the line / being outside / being "away from it all" / etc.), and each and everyone of them are valid reasons.

Be happy. You got one shot at this life, so enjoy it.

Scott in Flower Mound

I like to fish and hate work but that is life.

I hide my problems to fish.

my problem is not enough fishing

The last few paragraphs of the novella "a river runs through it" explains it best. "And then in the arctic half light of the canyon all existence fades to a being with my soul, and memories, a four count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise."

Some of you need to be checked for low T. That's all I'm saying.

First and foremost, we are blessed to live in a country like ours that
gives us the freedom to enjoy this great sport of ours...!