Twelve-year-old Derrick Villarreal chose his fishing spot with care. Stomping over the high brush with his fly-fishing rod held high, he settled on the bank with a watchful, if impatient, eye on the rainbow trout darting below the pond’s glassy surface.

“What a lotta people don’t understand is that it’s high-risk, high-reward,” Villarreal said, never taking his eyes off the water. Close

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