Wild One: Looks like you and I traveled the same road. I was raised in Utah and almost all of my fly angling was for trout or trout or trout. After I retired and moved to Oregon I found that my new home has a lot of warmwater fishing but I didn't really get carried away with warmwater as I figured they were for those who didn't flip the long rod. Then I bought a computer about 8 years ago, surfed the net and discovered that tthere was a whole world of fly fishing I was missing out on.

Thanks to members of FAOL and other sites I now spend much more time chasing crappie and gills than trout even though there is excellent trout fishing in my area.

As a bonus for me there is very little pressure on the warmwater fishery in my area while some of the trout lakes are crowded.

Tim