I went to the Central Jersey Trout Unlimited meeting tonight:

[Skunk City]

The 20-30 year old guys are still putting in work. Myself and my group of fishing buddies are late 20's-early 30's and put in tons of hours on the water. Would agree though, many are too busy chasing females and/or at a bar buying $8 drinks for said females to care about the OUTSIDE world. Me, I am trying to balance doing both right now .

In regards to coming out to meetings and such, I will say as I've gotten "older" (I'm 28 now), environmental and governmental issues have become more important to me than they were. In my teens and early 20's, it was kind of like "Yeah that's messed up, but whatever." I could see myself coming out to relevant meetings now if I wasn't fishing in all my free time .