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To distract you from my lack of knitting progress (I've only knit about six inches, I have six more to go on the back! Waaa) , I will give you ten reasons that knitting is better than fishing:

1. Knitting can be done anywhere, at any time, not just on boats and shores
2. You don't have to leave your family at home to knit
3. Knitting is cheaper, most everything can be done on ten different sized needles, and it is only as expensive as you want it to be
4. Knitting takes up much less space than fishing, and fly tying, and fly rods
5. You can create items that everyone can appreciate most anyone can use when you knit, not so when you fish
6. Knitters are nicer to non-knitters than anglers are to non-anglers
7. You can carry on a conversation, read, parent, be a somewhat involved spouse when you are knitting
8. Knitting doesn't spread things like New Zealand Mud Snails and Whirling disease
9. No one ever loses when they are knitting, it is not a competition, everyone shares their ideas and their secrets in knitting. Fishing is totally exclusive, and secretive
1o. No one ever drowned while knitting