1977. 14 yrs old. First fly rod fish. July. Family camping trip up from CA Bay Area. North Umpqua River at Susan Creek campground. 8ft Garcia fly rod, Olympic Daisy Medalist knock off reel, SA Air Cel flyline. Adams irresistible. About a foot long. Maybe it was a a juvenile steelhead. Caught several during a week stay and a few juvinile salmon too. Also caught a bunch of stocked fish down River outside fly only area. Later fished around home in Bay Area for bass and panfish in fly.

Moved back to Southern CA in 1979 and got deep into LM bass fishing with conventional gear. Didn't pick up fly rod again until 1993. Since that first rainbow trout have added more than 70 other species on the fly, the majority in Southern CA.