I’ve always felt most in harmony with the natural world when traveling light, unencumbered with excess gear and free of distracting technology. I can’t speak for everyone, but keeping it simple keeps me most comfortable in my own skin while I’m on the water and catching.
I like a simple boat, my gear winnowed to the basics and my attention focused only on finding fish and reading the water: the choppy seas off a headland, a tide rip making up, a dark shore. The same goes when I am on foot and studying
