In the movie Field of Dreams James Earl Jones says, "The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. " While it is true that baseball has withstood the test of time, it is not the only thing to have done so; fishing has also persevered. Former president Hebert Hoover once said, "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." Even today, despite the multitudes of gadgets and games that all vie for attention in this electro-techno age, several recent polls indicate that fishing trails only reading, TV watching, and spending time with family as Americans' favorite leisure activity.