Welcome, Stronghold, to fly fishing (FFing) and our online community.
If you haven't already done so, take some time to scroll through the threads here in the Beginner's Forum - there's a lot of info. Questions that are specific are easier for us to answer....so fire away.
For what it's worth, my usual advice to beginner FFers (and some old hands) is that there are more fish out there to target than just trout - "think outside the trout box" in other words. You can have a lot of fun learning to FF on bass and sunfish and they're easier to catch than trout (most of the time). Also, in your neck of the woods, there is a lot more warm water fishing opportunities nearby that trout streams anyway.
