I have to disagree. I actually went along once. Night fishing. The lads told me it was a good night, drinking, smoking a bit of weed and having a laugh so I went along.
It took them 3 hours to catch a fish and do you know what they done? Put it on some scales and then chucked it back in the ****ing water. I thought they’d sell them or take them home to cook. I said to them what’s the point in that and they just said it’s good fun. To this day I don’t understand what’s fun about it. They don’t even do anything, just cast off and then sit and look at that rod thing until it bends and then go through that pointless process of weighing it and then putting it back in the water just to try and catch it again.
Once was enough for me.
My Grandad tried to get me into fishing plenty of times bless him, same thing as you, just did not get it.
You sit there for hours and catch nowt, or you catch one thing and toss it back. It's mindnumbing.