Quote Originally Posted by jsalkas View Post
... you can't catch fish when your lure is out of the water. Therefore, the more your lure is in the water, the greater the percentage you will catch a fish. I'd of course rather be casting, but I have cost a larger number of fish trolling (of any sort).
In his book, Instinctive Fly Fishing, Taylor Streit makes this exact same argument for trolling. He thought it was the best method for fly fishing out of a float tube.