I started out a fly fish or die person. I spent so much time chasing trout that there was no corner of the west I have not traveled. Then I got the crazys for big fish on the fly. This made me do stuff like stand on a ladder in Pyramide lake Nevada for hundreds of hours a year (ever caught a 15 lb cutthroat ??? I have. Then I caught a couple steelhead on the fly and I WAS TOTALLY SCREWED... That was in the early 80's.. ever since nothing else will do. Along the way I found that in order to get in as much steelhead fishing as I wanted I would have to learn how to gear fish. This allowed me to fish with other people (that don't fly fish) Then I decided that I needed a drift boat. Got that all dialed in and these days I enjoy plugging as much as anything. From there I decided it was time to learn new stuff so I bought a jet boat and have been learning about Sturgon fishing.. its pretty cool. Now days I treat myself to a trip to Canada when I want to get back to my roots and fish for steelhead with the fly rod. Nothing on this earth can match the pure rush you get when a big double stripper buck hammers a bunny leach... My God I have an erection now.. and have to go ruff up the suspect