Summer! My grandfather at the oars, c. 1905.

Must be why I never caught too many fish :) . I saw an interesting t.v. show about the consequences of over fishing the big, predator species. It featured a marine biologist who used photographs of the catches from fishing guides out of one Florida port over a series of years from the late 1940s to some recent year. You can clearly see the size and quantity of fish taken decreasing as the years went by. He suggested that as the big game fish are removed, the smaller fish they prey on increase and in turn, those fish keep smaller, developing game fish from reaching maturity. I'll bet that they aren't catching fish like your pipe-smoker pulled in these days.