My Grandpa taught me to fish with a flyrod in eastern Washington when I was probably 3 or 4. He used a flyrod for everything, flyfishing, baitfishing, even trolling for macs with lead core line. I caught my first trout on single eggs, but as soon as I was able to handle the rod a little better he taught me to tie flies and flycast. I caught my first steelhead on a fly I tied myself - it was a colored up summer run and I thought it was a huge trout. I was probably 10 or so before I even handled any kind of tackle other than fly gear, when I did it was a green hornet (direct drive, no drag or free spool) and a Payless special Eagle Claw rod that I caught my first winter steelhead on. We had just moved to Tacoma and a fellow who worked for my dad had a "MacKenzie River" boat that he would take us out in - this was in the late 50's and there were no boats on any of the rivers. He taught us both about drift fishing, and a few years later, early 60's or so, about pulling plugs - whenever we saw another boat though he made us pull in the hotshot and hide it I picked up salmon fishing about the same time - my dad bought a boat and we attempted to learn how to mooch in Puget Sound, which mostly invloved catching dogfish, it was a couple years before I finally picked up enough info from every fishing magazine and publication available to move beyond the cracker stage - from then on I taught Dad how to fish