angling

What is the point? Well, what the angler is trying to achieve--although if you try too hard you're missing the point--is to be. Yates talks of merging with the water, abandoning oneself to the contemplation of the mysterious world beneath the surface of the water. "It's like a veil," he says. "You want to live it, make contact with that other dimension. Water can hypnotize and tranquillize, inspire and galvanize like n0 other medium."

~from How to be Idle - Tom Hodgkinson