Warren, You my friend are so right. It's the fun of catching fish on a fly rod that makes the experience enjoyable. A couple years back I was invited to a cricket drowning trip. I put a spinning reel on a 8.5 ft. 5 wt. and could lob a bobber with a cricket under it up on the bream beds on a day where flinging line would have been a real challenge especially from the center of a large jon boat with two friends. From the center of the boat I bested my friends using extendo poles 4 ft. longer than my fly rod. I had a ball.

The way I got my friend and myself off the top of the list of worst trout fishermen in Georgia was to tell him throw your nymph with strike indicator downstream of your float tube and follow it. He went about 50 ft. from where we put in before catching a fish.