About the only real competition I can see with fly fishing is me against, well me (and the fish)? I can't make sense of the idea of trying to out fish somebody else. It just isn't relevant to me. I fly fish for lots of reasons, the relative solitude, the chance to concentrate on something other than work, it's really tough to find the right words to describe the "why" of it. I'm real certain that it?s not for some competitive reason. I surely don't want my kids seeing it as the reason to fly fish so I agree with the irrelevance of the competitive aspect. I value the activity too much to bring it down to that level.