Concentrate on WHERE you fish much more than WHAT you fish with.You can learn but you cannot be taught to love flyfishing.
Mark
I’d rather be in Wyoming!
The best advice I can give you has been stated over and over, go fishing.
But while you are there keep the equipment in the car once in a while. Take a good camera and take pictures. Look at the water, look at the land as it leads into the water. Look at the birds, they will tell you a lot. Look at everything and anything. Take as many pictures as you can. Then fish, when you get home look at the pictures and remember what you saw.
Remember where you caught your fish. There will be fish in those kind of places all the time.
Learn the fly rod, learn all the different types of cast.
From today until the day you die you will learn if you keep your mind open. Fishing is not something that you learn over night. I am in my 50’s and I’ll tell you this, I fish with people that are great fishermen, I would rather sit and watch them cast or catch a fish than I had to fish myself.
I have friends that fish from many countries, I once asked a friend from Brazil if a 3 foot long fish was his target, without bragging he told me his bait was over 3 feet long. Now I want to fish with him some day.
Go fishing but also go learn. I am not sure which is more fun. But the camera is a real help for me. See what I caught at the last fish-in…
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I promise you that photo was captured because I had learned to watch the water.
You have started on a path that will enhance your life for the rest of it. Fish when it is raining, fish when it is cold, but most of all fish when you can. Fish at night, look around and listen.
I pray that on one trip you get scared by something that takes your breath away.
I have been scared by dolphin, manatees, beaver, gators, bass, and other species of fish. But once scared you will never be the same. That rush will make you fish more and more. That unexpected excitement that proves you are alive.
Ask Flats Dude, Stev, Ed and Purebs about the dolphin drag race we all watched.
Ask D. Micus about losing his yak.
Ask Diane about her first bass. Or go out and experience it all.
OH yea find a partner. Nothing in life that pumps your heart into overdrive should be experienced alone.
Go fishing and enjoy each trip. Remember it is not about catching, it is the journey.
Best fishing
Harold
Here is my best advice: go fishing, go fishing some more. There will be questions that come to mind. Ask those individual questions. Or, if you figure out something that works post that as well. No one is too experienced to learn something new and you might have some fresh take on an old problem that we’d all benefit from!
RRhyne56
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what can I add that hasn’t already been noted …
Take the advice of the experienced ones … and if you have conflicting / different ideas - try them anyhow. Who know’s, maybe it’ll work for you.
Now - if you’re more fortunate that those of us with ice still on the water … GO FISH 
darrell,
Buy a six pack of PBR, a subscription to drake magizine, and an RV. Much glory will follow.
keep it simple, learn to tie easy yet effective knots for your leaders and practice them until you know how to tie them blindfolded. Nothing worse than having to re-rig when the fish are rising and you just can’t seem to get that knot tied up right.
“Be prepared to make innumerable mistakes”
Dale