You sound like me a few years back, getting out of the USAF, after 11 in my case, and being back home wanting to fish.
Blue Fox still work, I got a chinook at Oxbow last weekend on one, and a steelhead about an hour later on a R&B. I haven't had any luck with Coho though. Last year I would watch them swim by, but never take my offerings. I'll be back at it tomorrow, this time with eggs from the nook I caught.
I don't think your luck has changed, you are just forgetting the skunk and romanticizing about "the good o'l days"