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For a lot of people, fishing is finite. There's only so much enjoyment and reward to be squeezed out of it. It's not like mathematics, or literature, or helping others - for most, the rewards diminish over time.
Indeed, some of the people who stay super-enthused their whole lives, are rather one-dimensional and dull. Kind of like people whom you went to high school with and are intellectually in the same place they were twenty years ago.
Just the experience of the public library, where you can get virtually any book or DVD or explore any topic, is has increased exponentially since we were kids. The opportunities for self-development have never been greater - whereas the fishing experience has remained essentially the same or has declined over the last twenty years or so. It's not that fishing is not rewarding, but rather there are more choices that are more rewarding than they used to be, and other choices that simply were not there. Life is about editing, because you can't do everything.
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