As for how good I think I am? I can't really say. When I go up to the Peninsula and sit down to dinner in J.D Loves house and have dinner with my father-in-law Greg Hartman and J.D.'s family and he and my father-in-law have a few glasses of wine and start talking about years passed and secret techniques they've invented that can catch fish on every river Ive seen some of them used on I realize the answer to this question; not good enough. My father-in-law taught me how to catch a steelhead as good and sometimes beter :p than he himself can at 40 some odd years old,which since he was 18 have been spent fishing. Him and I go on new stretchs off river and old rivers he hasn't fished in 20 years every trip and I can tell you that 99.9% of the time we catch as many and most of the time more fish than the people we encounter on the river. Bill Herzog said it best the last time I talked to him, it went something like: Everyone asks me what one secret weapon ,if there is one, to catching salmon and steelhead consistently, and I tell 'em all the same thing. Read the water ya zipperhead!