Way back in 2019, my approach to serving patrons as a music library supervisor was very much “teach them to fish”: I worked, sometimes against considerable patron resistance, to teach our patrons to use our search tools self-sufficiently rather than rely on me and my staff to do things for them. After our library fully reopened in fall of 2021, I woke up one day and realized that I had abandoned the “teach them to fish” approach in favor of what could be described as “performative fishing”…and that interacting with patrons had become much more satisfying for me than it had in the pre-covid past. What prompted this change in approach? What have I and my team learned from it? Will it produce savvy library users, or just happy ones? Is it sustainable in the long term? I offer an informal reflection on my experience and an invitation to dialogue.