I'm guessing your question is rhetorical, and somewhat tongue and cheek, but for me the answer would be yes. It's a qualified yes, depending on how challenging the fishing was. If it was relatively easy, say just getting a good drift and being moderately stealthy, I'd could easily forego it. For me after decades, certain challenges appeal, others not so much. After the untold thousandth rise, the image and the subsequent events are burned into my memory. Do I appreciate it any less? God, no. If not, perhaps more. I just choose to not repicate that memory very often. I don't think it's a question of stages, as in the ones supposedly, we, as flyfisherman wade through. More, I think, it's part of our temperment and pychological make-up. I probably suffer from ADD and am too fidgety and pig- headed to appreciate the finest things in life. So, if you don't get tired of it? In my opinion you're truly blessed.

Charlie