Re: Hunting versus Fishing?
Where you are located may make a lot of difference. I'm 73 years old and I've gradually given up hunting over the past ten or twelve years, doing less of it year by year until I finally gave it up all together a couple of years ago. Not because I couldn't hack it any more, and rifle hunting in the mountains of New Mexico means, for me, lots of walking and lots of work packing out the meat sometimes. I can still hack the walking and work involved in killing a deer or an elk but somehow, the thrill is gone. I don't need the meat like I did 40 or 50 years ago and I never have been a fan of just killing a animal for the bragging rights. So, I gave it up. Do I miss it? No, not at all. BUT, the difference is that I live in Southern New Mexico. I can fish nearly all year round. And, I have a house on a lake in Sonora, Mexico in a location where the thermometer seldom hits freezing in the winter even at night and even in the coldest part of the winter. I make at least two or three trips of trips there every year for a week or ten days each time.
I'm originally from St. Louis (actually, I was born in Fornfelt, now Scott City, in Southeast Missouri) but moved to New Mexico when I was a kid. But, I remember the Missouri winters and I'll bet that even with whatever climate change is taking place, they can still be long and fierce. What else will you do in the winter if you aren't hunting or at least planning a hunt?
Having said all that, as far as I'm concerned bass fishing is hunting. Just a different kind of hunting. And, I work at it nearly as hard as I ever did elk or deer hunting. Incidentally, I have friend, much younger than me who gave up hunting and took up wild life photography. He no longer has to worry about seasons and bag limits and has even made a little money at it.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
, no long trips in the car, no more hard physical work outdoors, etc., etc. 
