I can think of two factors. One, if you are going to go down to the local pond or lake and fly fish, you are probably not given to pretention (or else you would drive to some "name" trout stream) or you are more willing to march to the beat of your own drum, and not listen to marketing telling you what rod to buy.

Second, trout and saltwater fishing make better magazine and book copy--it is hard to write about bass and bluegill in the same way that people write exhaustively about matching hatches or the latest craze in salt water. So, the less we read about WW fly fishing, the less impressed we are with this rod or that rod--tackle becomes less important than actually fishing.

Plus, we can fish MUCH more often than the average trouit or salt water fisher that has to travel. More time fishing, less time thinking about tackle.

Panfisher, that was a very funny post about sneaking the rod into the tackle show.

Russ