Quality! I purposely pass the "hot" holes to be away from the crowds.
I think it is a progression we make as one noted above.... I am glad that in middle age I realize I don't HAVE to be first on the water, don't have to catch the most fish, don't have to stay out the longest and get the coldest and wettest to prove my worth as a fisherman.

As Roderick Haig Brown once said, "sometimes the least important part of fishing is fishing...."
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Do what you can do...no one can do everything, everyone can do something.