daytripper wrote:

Ok, hit some "flyfishing only" water tossing a Mepps spinner with your flyrod
and see if the Rangers don't get all excited about your definition of
flyfishing.

And tossing a bubble and fly with spinning gear is certainly flyfishing -
albeit in a rather primitive form - at least according to many state F&W
regulations.

/daytripper

Definitions are a problem in general. You mentioned "fly fishing only"
waters. Yellowstone Park has various waters designated that way.
So I stopped in, at the main ranger station in Mammoth Junction, and
said "what is fly fishing? How do I know if I'm not breaking the rules."

The ranger grinned. "We get that question a lot," he said. "After a
while we gave up trying to define it. 'Not bait' is how we define
it now."