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reasons to pick fishing over any other hobby

While many people indulge in the adventure and fun activities such as skydiving, scuba diving, and many others, fishing is one activity that is still popularizing. Fishing has been an active sport in the UK. Soon, it came to other places such as the US and Dubai. If you have ever enjoyed fishing trips in Dubai, you might have gone deep-sea fishing and must have experienced a trip worth remembering. 

When we are talking about fishing, we are talking about the professional way of fishing where the fisherman catch thousands of fish. Fishing has turned into a hobby and recreational activity in which you need to relax while waiting for the fishes to come to your bait. 

As many of the activities and hobbies have their own benefits, fishing also has some benefits. Here are a few: 

Staying Healthy

If you are someone who is not keen about exercising, you can try other activities such as fishing. A number of people think that fishing is an activity where the person just has to be idle and just needs to pull in the fish when it is caught. Well, there lies the actual trick. You will never understand how much workout you can have in fishing until you try it yourself. 

When you realize that you have caught a fish, you need to pull it through the reel and the equipment with all your force. This requires the working of your shoulders, hands, back, and even the legs. Hence when you are pulling the fish with full force, the whole body is working. 

Not just physical exercise, fishing also can offer you a good amount of mental exercise too. Fishing is a game of focus and concentration. You need to  be focused to realize that you have got a fish and you need to pull it in. If you are diverted towards something else, you might often lose this opportunity and the fish might go away eating the bait. 

Also, when you are tired after a session of fishing, you can have a good sleep at night that can help you wake up fresh the nextday. That is always a great thing to do. 

Spending Quality Time

Fishing is not a matter of an hour or so. It may take up the whole day. If you are going deep sea fishing in Dubai, you have to take a boat to travel a few kilometers in the sea to reach the right spot for fishing. 

People today are entangled in electronic gadgets and modern amenities of life so much that they have forgotten that life can be enjoyed beyond electronics. Of course, people used to have an enjoyable life even before the introduction of these gadgets. 

The activity of fishing offers you the opportunity to get disconnected with all these gadgets and modern amenities of life for some time and spend some quality time with nature. You can carry your phone with you, of course, but should shut off the notifications for a great experience. Whether you are going on a fishing trip alone or with your family and friends, it is surely going to offer you a great experience. Often today due to the smartphone and other things, spending time with family and friends has been reduced. When you get disconnected from these amenities, you can get connected with the people around you in a better way. So, the activity of fishing can offer you a great option of socializing with people. 

Exploring Nature

With more infrastructures being built up, people are losing the habit of exploring and appreciating nature. You stay in houses with all the modern amenities and this situation; you get disconnected from the real beauty of nature. You sleep peacefully in your air conditioned house, but you miss out on the cool breeze that can make you sleep even better. 

If you go for an act of fishing, you get the option of meeting nature. The wavy water of the sea, the cool breeze blowing through the surface, and the sun over your head can offer you a perfect day for fishing. Not just the water and the sky, you can also meet with other elements of nature such as the seagulls and other bird screeching and different moments when the day changes from morning to afternoon and then afternoon to evening. 

Learn Something New

Of course, when you decide you start a new activity as your hobby, you have a lot that you can learn. Also, you do not learn these things in one day. You get to learn them as each day passes. You learn how to get a bait fixed to get the fish, how to spot a location to catch a particular fish, how to know when a fish gets into the trap, the angles that you need to use to pull the fish, and so on. Initially, you may have to get help from the guide or may have to take your tools to an expert if they are broken. But later on, you learn how to mend your own equipment and have a great day at the sea while fishing. 

As you go out on a day for fishing, you return back, with your favorite fresh fish. Not just fishing, this way, you also learn how to cut the fish and how to cook delicious recipes. So, when you go fishing, there are many other things simultaneously that you can actually learn. 

Fishing as a hobby is speeding up in a number of countries today. In places such as Dubai, it is also a major tourist attraction. If you are thinking of doing something new, this can be the ideal time to try fishing as your new hobby. 
 


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