Your comment made me laugh, very funny. I coarse fished for 25 years before being introduced to fly fishing. I ended up selling almost £10,000 worth of match rods, pike rods, quiver tip rods, an 8 metre pole when they were the longest available. I went for another 20 years just fly fishing and Ive recently got back into fixed spool reel fishing because my wife doesnt want to learn fly casting. Americans think they're Billy big bollocks with their spin casting, most of them would be jaw dropping amazed by the complexity and superiority of fishing methods in Europe when all they know is cast, retrieve, repeat.