Finally back to fly fishing after a 40 year absence - family, work somehow interfered - now have my priorities back in order and got re-equiped for fly fishing. Finding the fly fishing community to be very welcoming. Bought an old Thompson vise and some bugger patches, chenille, wire and hooks. Since I figured the sport had evolved from my early fenwick pflueger medalist days I bought a new 10' graphite nymphing rod and matching 3 wt reel and started tying some PT's, perdigons, caddis dries, Stimulators. Probably caught most trout on The Salmon River in a fly fishing area on woolly buggers and nymphs, then hit the Farmington River in the summer when The Salmon dried up. That's a totally different can o worms where there are a 50/50 mix of wild and holdovers or stocked trout. Fished small bwo's, tricos, summer winter caddis with some success and hooked into a few bigger fish on some streamers, Zonker's and then got into a whole Kelly Galloup craze and hooked a couple more nice fish. But I think I was mostly using the new gear. So now I'm ready to get more familiar with the vintage Fenwicks that have sat in their tubes for most of the past 40 years (FF755 and 806) and see how they fish with dry's, wets, nymphs and streamers. Over the winter caught a lot on PT's and Princes. Trying to simplify and not go too many directions at one time!