I certainly envy those of you who live in trout country because I truly love cold water trout fishing on streams. However, living in Florida I do most of my daily fishing on a lake in back of my home for blue gill and bass. Occassionally, I'll fish saltwater for seatrout and snook. I try to take several cold water trout fishing trips each year to Arkansas, Idaho and Michigan. Stream fishing is by far my favorite because of the beauty and solitude of it all. I think stream fishing requires considerably more skill and lake fishing and, as someone else said, Lake fishing is kinda boring, especially if you aren't catching much. I once fished a private lake in Colorado where I had a 15 to 20 inch trout on every 15 minutes or so. Now, that was not boring.