I remember getting into it when I was ahout 13. I can't remember how, as there really wasn't any fly fishing where I grew up (Adelaide, South Australia). I guess I was always an avid reader of foreign fishing magazines. Through serendipity, my high school offered fly tying as a Friday afternoon time filler. Though lack of access to trout water, I stopped, and started again when I moved to Calgary in 2000. Since I took it up again, I have caught browns, brookies, rainbows, grayling, RM whitefish, pike, chum salmon, smallmouth bass, black crappie and sunfish on the fly (between Alberta and BC). It's a blast. My toys are a 3 weight, and a 5 weight. Used to have an 8 but the removalists made short work of that. Apart from salmon in the 'chuck, fly fishing is all I do now.