Born in the early years of the post war baby boom and raised in Philadelphia, I started dabbling in fly fishing about 15 years ago. Even took a course in tying and casting. For some reason I put it aside and forgot about it.
In the early 90's I rejoined a local fly fishing/tying
club(Mainline Flytyers)and took the beginner's tying class twice and then the intermediate class twice, not sure I "passed" any of them. During this time my main weapon was still the spinning rod.
About 5 years ago I had an epiphany of sorts by catching my first trout on a rod I had built and a fly I had tied.
About a year after that I stumbled on to the FF@ list and it has been downhill since then leaving my spinning rods and reels to gather dust.
I am pretty much of homebody, doing most of my fishing within a 50 to 70 mile radius of Philly with occasional forays to FF@ claves, Vermont and Ontario.