I’m surely not the first to connect the two.

Google it.

There’s page after page after page.

Check out “When Commercial Fishermen Get Together to Recite Poetry – Pacific…” at

https://psmag.com/economics/commercial-fishermen-get-together-recite-poetry-74049…
For my modest contribution,

I report the following.

I began fishing and writing poems

A couple of years ago

When we got our house near the Battenkill.

August, 2017.