Yeah, you don’t understand fishing. It’s not nearly as passive an activity as you seem to think it is.
No, those are actually worthwhile pursuits. The OP’s proposal is pointless, ill advised, and founded on ignorance. I especially like the part where she accuses fisherman of having no common sense.
NO one has suggested the tv/comic scene of a guy sitting at home, holding a fishing rod, with the line dipped into a bucket of water.
Although this thread has largely been superseded by the hunting / fishing one which has started in “Great Debates” – can’t resist citing something which I just happened upon in the course of re-reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s Memory, in her Miles Vorkosigan science-fantasy series.
In the setting of the series – a hi-tech society spread over many planets, far in the future – “The need for sticking hooks into wriggling unhappy live things had been technologically relieved by the invention of little protein cubes…guaranteed to attract fish in droves, or shoals, or whatever.” The implication being that the angler puts one of these on the end of his line (no hook); lowers it in; and the fish are so beguiled by the delicious protein cube that they latch onto it and don’t let go, even when they’re pulled out of the water. Any possibility, I wonder, of developing something like this at the present day?
(Regrettably, in the book, the guys out fishing don’t manage to get anything with rod and line as above; losing patience, they adapt a highly advanced handgun-equivalent which they have with them, to perform their technology’s equivalent of fish-dynamiting – but then they aren’t regular hobby anglers, and have gone fishing just on a one-off whim.)
It’s not available to many, but I like gold panning.
Diamond hunting is pretty cool too, but you need to live in Arkansas, which is a huge tradeoff.