Hey Hawk, Great post you hit the nail on the head with the bit about working your ass off to catch a fish end result being a life long addiction. I always figured the guys who got spoon fed by there old man or an uncle never seem to, on average , take to the addictive side of angling like the unsponsered kid that struggled and learned on his own. After putting in a stuggling aprentiship and old timer took me under his wing and of all the advice he gave me the one thing that is still relevant and applicable is that "you get out of fishing what you put in to it".