I always figure that the day I stop learning while fishing will be the day it's not fun anymore. A couple years back I put out a book for totally uninitiated folks who have kids who want to go fishing. The one thing I emphasized as most important was to be observant and ready to learn and experiment. When we were kids, we'd try darn near anything once, just to see how the fish reacted. I still use some of the zany but effective things we discovered back then.