Don't believe for one minute we are born to go fishing or that is a connection with a primeval urge to be a hunter, it is far simpler than that.
It is one of the few things we can do all through a lifetime that keeps us in touch with our childhood, we can still be kids.
Think about it, every aspect is covered, including joining a gang, a bit of bullying by some now and again, jealousy, just acting stupidly, showing off, as well as anticipation, collecting, success, failure...............all aspects of life, especially childhood life, is there.
Thats my opinion!
I'm of the primaeval urge school. We are only a few thousand years away from our hunter gatherer ancestors and in evolutionary terms that is nothing.
The hunting urge is still strong within us all except that these days we are hunting the biggest house, the best job, the fastest car etc etc. some men are serial womanisers, who will openly admit the conquest is not the buzz, the real buzz is in the thrill of the chase.
Ironically even those who profess to be against traditional forms of hunting and so called cruelty to animals are satisfying their own hunting urge by the tactics they use, tracking their prey, learning their habits and ultimately killing off what they see as wrong.
If you look at the hunter gatherer tribes which still survive today you can clearly see they work in a group or if you like 'a gang', there is always a bit of jockeying for position within the group or you could say 'a bit of bullying by some now and again, jealousy, just acting stupidly, showing off', and the 'anticipation, collecting, success, failure' are what the hunting party thrives on and exists for. The argument for trying to separate fishing from a primaeval urge to hunt does not stand up to scrutiny.
That's my opinion!
Nobody in my immediate family fished but with the river Severn running past our house and occasionally through it I always had a fascination for it and the seldom glimpsed, shadowy shapes which inhabited its depths.
And as kids fishing was what we did; along with shooting at anything which burrowed, climbed trees or flew and if we were lucky a bit of ferreting with a couple of the old boys from the village.
Perhaps if I had been brought up in a city I would have been a poorer angler but a better businessman, who knows?