The answere to all your problems is ....time on the water. Put in enough time , it all becomes second nature. Sure you have good days and bad and everyone , even old salts F up now and then but the number of incidents goes down with time on the water. Unfortunately , after several decades of fishing , and getting by all the mistakes and building your knowledge of spots and techniques , you suddenly find out that the cost of all that knowledge was years of wear and tear on the old body. then , you know exactly what to do and how to do it but you just can't anymore. Oh well , that's fishing.
to the specific question ; is fishing hard? fishing is as hard as you want it to be!
