Did you ever give much thought to the phrase Gone Fishing. I have and I am puzzeld. If you’ve gone shopping you come back with your purchases. If you’ve gone golfing you come back happy or mad, depending on your score. Gone to the barber, you come back with less hair and so on. But when you say you’ve gone fishing and you come back with no fish and you’re happy that is where the confusion lies. I’ve seen fishermen out in their boats for hours, no fish…at the side of the lake, hours, no fish, on the beach surf fishing, I’ve never seen anyone catch a fish at the beach, but they’ll spend hours. We silence ourselves around them, we don’t splash or talk, we don’t get too near in case they cast and we get hooked. I’ve decided there lies the answer.  It is the polite way of saying Do Not Disturb…or I’m leaving for some peace and quiet..or I just have to get away for awhile. If they catch a fish, that is bonus. That brings me to the information you may need in case you don’t want to be disturbed, oh I mean if you want to go fishing in The Villages.   All lake and ponds in The Villages may be fished where there is public access, with the exception of Lake Sumter and posted no fishing areas.  Happy fishing.