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I imagine they share (shared) an obsessiveness with high performance, and fishing was a way to do that as "recreation," away from the media, away from the fans and everyone but a few trusted friends. They could do it with the same seriousness and compulsion to excel, just without having to answer the questions afterward. On the water, they only had to answer to themselves. They could let down their guard fishing while still pursuing that ideal of perfection.