Glad your hooked. I wouldnt fish trout in streams any other way than fly fish. A 3 weight fly rod with a 16-17" rainbow/cutt is a blast and will string you as good as any steelhead. Makes me sick to see bait chuckers on good trout streams, rippen the guts outa the poor bast***'s. Washington needs more good "quality" trout waters.

If your not into numbers and stacking fish in the freezer then pursue steelhead with the Fly stick, its tougher to reach alot of fish but the challenge is great.
I gear fish 90% of the time, but that % will decrease as the years go by
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown