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.

One other thought:
I haven't been an active fishing guide since 1995.
But I did spend a lot of time working Montana's Paradise
Valley Spring Creeks. I was one of the few guides who
booked a day for himself once a year, so I could fish.
And I still book a day or two even now, each year.

When Bob Auger was the river keeper on the DePuy Stretch,
I was there fishing one stormy day in July. It was thundering,
blowing and raining on and off all day. Big streamers seldom
work well (at all) on the spring creeks, on sunny days.
But when it's stormy like that, you can catch some very
big fish that way.

I took it one step further and put on a home made, lightweight
flyrod wiggler. A crankbait, I guess you'd say. I plopped in
into the fast water below a road culvert. Wham. I nailed a
big brown about 21" long. There are fish at those culverts
a lot bigger than that. But that's what I hooked. A crowd
of 5-6 highbrows crowded around while I fought the fish.
When I netted it an pulled the wiggler out, an audible gasp
went around the crowd. Someone asked "is that legal?"

Bob said: "It's got feathers on it and Sandy made it. It's a fly
in my book."