Your Happy Place

Where is your "Happy Place"? For many, it's a beach. For me, it is the mountains-riding an ATV, canoeing and one of my very favorites-fly fishing. I just came back from a few days on Penn's Creek. It's like a Zen Experience and difficult to explain. Fly fishing is different and challenging. You need many skills to be successful. The most difficult is entemology -knowing what insects are hatching and what trout are eating. Then you have to match that insect from your array of hand tied flies -made from animal fur and feathers. Aquatic Insects spend most of their life in a nymph stage and then emerge from the water-reproduce and die. There is so much more like casting, presentation hooking and landing. But, once you catch some good sized fish, you are "hooked" (groan). I guess it's much like a hole in one golfing-all strikes in bowling, etc.