I went to orvis.com and watched a lot of their how-to videos. I thought the actual casting/retrieving mechanics of it would be daunting, but that was the easy part. Fly fishing is a whole other ballgame than spinning or baitcasting. Two gazillion different flies, presentations, three different kinds of line on the reel arbor, and those tippets are so thin they make a forearm hair look like braided rope. It took me 15 minutes just to thread one onto a #10 barbless hook. I’ve hooked brown trout in creeks before, but on light spinning tackle. It isn’t Daddy’s spincast combo with a red wiggler on the hook. But the frustration of that part of the trip was offset by the sheer amount of emeralds, rubies, amethysts and the like we sluiced out of the ore at the mine. I dare say we hit ‘the mother lode’.