It was the spring of 1954, I was 15 and a soph. in high school. I had a cheap cane rod I had purchased with my paper route money at the local hardware store. I fished in the Rahway River in Cranford, N.J. The fly I used was a Scarlet Ibis wet, and after fishing for about fifteen minutes, I caught a 10 inch stocker Rainbow. That started a wonderful association with the long rod that continues today.