Its not that the hobby isn't good enough. Like I said, plenty of women fishers out there. I enjoy fishing myself, though I haven't done it in years, now that I live in a desert.

And I've been dating sites back in the day. Again, not for well over 15 years.

Never put a picture of me holding up a fish on dating sites.

Why?

It wouldn't get me an responses. Generally speaking, men don't look to women for companionship. Fishing is what you do with you buddies, not your romantic interest.

I'm not saying it should be that way, I'm happy about it, or that it's that way across the board, I'm recognizing that's the general concensus. It is what it is.

Therefore, if I'm looking to date a guy on a dating site, I'm ot going to advertise myself as a possible buddy. If I find out during the date the guy lives fishing with his girlfriend, that's great! Cherry on top. Great for both of us. We have our next date.

But I'm not expecting it and I'm not putting itout there as a standard to be met. Too high a standard for first round. Why? Because I have my own buddies to go fishing with (or did) and I don't care if fishing with my love interest is a bonding activity or not. I'd rather not make an issue out of it.

Likewise, if that's your choice in profile pic, it's just a bad choice. Put your best fishing pic in the album.

Your profile pic is your introduction.

When you meet people, do you announce that you caught a fish right after shaking hands? No? Cause that would be weird, right?

All the same social dynamics apply, they're just happening in a digital space now.

Your profile pic should.be inviting and arouse curiosity. That's what you want to aim for.

Back in the day, I saw some really good ones and a lot of really low effort, lackluster ones. And it wasn't what you'd think.