I started trout fishing @ age 6 w/ my father in WI we used fly rods like cane poles, too put our worms where we wanted them too go, in the very dense overgrown tangles of the thick log jammed brush lined creeks, and it was a natural progression from there. I remember tieing flies w/ sewing thread an duck feathers before I even knew there were vices an bobins and I actually caught fish! that was thirty some years ago now (THANKS DAD!)