I'm Al.  I live in Fayetteville NC which is right outside of Ft Bragg where I retired from 34 years of Army life in 1990 (28 active and 6 reserves).  

I live a fairly active  retirement. I'm an  adjunct professor at Webster University (Pope AFB site) where I'm also the Chairperson of the Security Management curriculum (assets protection, workplace violence, terrorism, investigations, etc). This part time job plus my military retirement keeps me in gas money, fly materials and reloading components. I'm also a very serious deer hunter (don't look for me on the water during deer season).
 
I started fishing as a kid and graduated to fly fishing in my early 20s when I read a story in Outdoor life about streamer fishing. Got to be a pretty good streamer fisherman and eventually moved on to dry flies. Learned to fish nymphs about 15 years ago and soon realized that fish spend most of their time feeding subsurface. I now spend most of my time fishing nymphs. I fooled around with the wooly worm recipe and modified it to create the Allieworm http://www3.roanoke.com/outdoors/billcochran/1437.html

From  Fayetteville I have to drive about 4 hours to reach the nearest NC trout stream. About 12 years ago I read a story about the Smith River in Bassett VA which is only 3 hours away - so it soon became my home water. About 10 years ago I started looking for a "get a way" property to purchase in the Smith River area and found one a year later. I now spend about 90 days a year at a circa 1900s log cabin which sits about a half mile up an oak ridge which we have named "Albert's Dream, Anita's Nightmare". I'm married to a wonderful understanding woman who allows me to indulge my dreams. She enjoys the cabin almost as much as I do and accompanies me there often.
 
It took awhile for me to figure the Smith River out (I'm still learning new things) but I now  regularly catch 500-600 Smith River browns annually. About 9 years ago I started offering a guide service which is limited to the Smith River . I don't push the guide service, preferring to keep it low key so that I can do a lot of fun fishing myself. I enjoy sharing what I have learned with others.  I usually learn as much from my fishing companions as they do from me.