Fly-fishing is about a lifetime of learning for Illinois fisheries ecologist

There’s not a time in my life when I don’t remember enjoying fishing.
Camping with my family as a child, I remember escaping down to the lake at the soonest possible moment and fishing until I was called back to camp. Or of fishing off my grandparents’ pontoon boat, upset at being chased off the lake by rain but catching a big bluegill as the boat pulled into dock. You might say I’ve been hooked since the first cast.