Our pond is about 300 yards from the house. It is a rare day that I don't (at least) take a walk around it and observe (so much to see!)
I can't remember not having my Grandpa take me fishing as a boy - mostly farm ponds but sometimes large lakes. Since we've been married, my wife and I have intermittently kept small aquariums where one Darwinian Champion inevitably eats everything else (a blue lobster, a Green Sunfish/Bluegill hybrid, and some ugly minnow/sucker that I never did identify but which got almost too big to turn around in a 10 gallon tank).