Fishing, as I practice it, is a scientific hobby. Fishing is a small window of personal inquiry into the greatest and least understood environment on this planet, the ocean. You can catch fish if you bait a hook and hang it over the side. Sooner or later something will probably try to eat the bait. There's atavistic science in that.
Dumb luck earns the catch.
That's not my kind of fishing. Fishing to me is about understanding what makes fish bite. Fishing to me is about understanding the sensitivities that each fish species has to temperature, light, movement of water, presence of food, smells and sound. I could derail this entire meditation with a treatise on this particular phenomenon, but you see the drift of this argument. There is science here.