Why does it keep me coming back? because its hard and its impossible to master. It requires a level of focus and concentration that gear fishing does not. When I'm trying to figure a river out, figure the bugs out, choose the right fly, make the right cast and presentation, I'm 100% absorbed in what I'm doing and not thinking about bills, about work, about the crap going in in the world around us. For a day or just a few hours I'm completely lost in something else. Its a mental vacation as much as anything else.
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy new fly fishing gear and that usually does the trick.
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