Great to have a fishing buddy for sure, Piemma! RIRH and you two must have a blast.
My best fishing buddy is gone. Died when I was 19 yrs old - both of us sophmores in college (1983). Had a dream of having a charter business down in FL (both of us were anti-social so I doubt we would have done that.....LOL). He fishes with me when I go out. He kind of makes me get up when I don't want to and drag my butt out there.
Being out on the water - listening to the water and feeling the air blow .... smell of the ocean. Not a worry in the world - life is grand where I catch something or not.
I stopped fishing for a decaded after I lost my best friend.... gave up a lot of things. Started back up .... as if I never stopped. Two idiots standing in the water cracking the ice off our guides when we couldn't feel our hands.... LOL.
Sorry - getting a little sentimental.
Luck does help over skill sometimes. I had some newbies out before & they caught way more and larger fish than myself ! Made me feel good that I was able to get another "HOOKED" on to fishing.
Ran into a young boy - may be 10'ish fishing up near Gloucester/Rockport area last Wednesday just before sunset. He was using some white Storms on an outfit that was his grandfathers = he said his GF loved to fish and had the gear in the garage so he decided to use it. 6.5' Conventional boat rod w/ Baitrunner 4500A on it w/ some 20 lb mono - he didn't care ... he caught a couple of schoolies. I was having good luck w/ a Yozuri Hydro Popper and fish were exploding under it sending in couple of feet in the air.... lol. After catching a lot of schoolies I decided to call it quits and have dinner w/ my elderly friend who was staying at the Inn next to the beach. I unhook my lure and walked over to the boy and said "here, take this - it's working pretty well for me". Kids now a days could be learning to do a lot worse things than to fish.
More the merrier IMHO - can't have enough kids fishing! My elderly friend saw me give the lure away and asked me what I was using and I told him it was the lure I had given to him earlier that afternoon to use.
I enjoy people discovering a new hobby. Nothing brings more cheer to me than a kid catching a fish and running back to their folks screaming ..... look .... look .... I caught a big one!