A long time fishin' buddy picked it up while working in Illinois. Spent all his off time in Wisconsin fishin' for steelhead. Came
back to Texas and gave me my first fly rod. I became addicted and got into tying and went to a tying class. After 15 years
I finally gave most all of my materials away to a newbie. Kept just enough to tie a few once in a while. Got a large surplus of
most everything I'd ever fish with. Tied some pom-poms that look like floating fish food and catch the fool out of some real
nice channel cats in the neighbors pond. Still like to crappie fish once in a while with wooly-buggers and like to send out
the little spiders to the bluegill with my 3 wt. Don't know if I'll ever use my St. Croix 7 wt. again or not, and don't use the
5 wt. as much as I enjoy my 3 wt. Standing in my WS Ride 135 is still fun when the gills are hitting and the crappie are on
the banks. Now, I fish more than my friend that taught me, but thats a whole different story.