My favorite fishing is stream fishing for trout. Some people around are ok, if they share well. I want to encounter fish; rises to the fly, maybe a swipe at the hardware. I "need" to have some interaction with the fish so a day simply flogging the water isn't it.

I like to fish for feeding fish. Find their lie and tempt them. So, random casting, drowning a worm under a bobber is not my fun.

An interesting observation from back in the early 80s when PS was closed to Chinook for allocation. Hardly anybody fished because it was "closed". All that was closed was killing Chinook. Chinook C&R was open, coho retention was open. The mindset was interesting.

Sometimes, the most fun is simply catching something. Fished a small creek in Queensland. Had no idea what was there. I had seen some rainbow fish and Archerfish, but really didn't know what was there. And there (apparently) were crocs. I managed to land a 4.5" jungle perch, on an elk-hair caddis. Great day. And the snake I flushed into the creek didn't bite me.