Why do we go fishing?

Do you as i do go fishing to escape the day to day stress of life ?. I know when i'm by the water i tend to drift off into my own little world and as the wife says "you lose all track of time" o can sit there at 8am and before i know it is 4pm and im supposed to be picking up somebody from somewhere i  make it just in time but there have been some close calls (sorry !!)
Last year and in fact the start of this year i have been captavated by a weirpool on the river Thames.

                                                        View downstream
This pool just says fish me and fish me now,so for 8 months once or twice a week at different times of the day including nights i fished and by god did i fish i went through the whole amoury of baits,pellets,meat,maggotts,worms,boiles,paste,bread. And caught what? 2 bream that's what 2 snotty slimy (but welcome) bream.
And yes before you ask there are fish there how do i know because one of the people who tell us fishermen when we are sat there minding our own business told me so............