S Penzes wrote:
a spin fisherman
..........I can see that he sits down on his stool to have a beer between casts.
I can see that he casts the same thing over and over and over. I don't
care what's on the end of his line.

BTW I just thought to add this question, how have your shoreside
conversations gone with fellow flyfisherman versus the other kind of
guy? You share flies, you discuss how you made them, you discuss local
hatches, you discuss water and river structure, etc versus "where dya
get those worms?"

There may well be a larger proportion of fly fishermen who study
hard and ponder their next move more frequently. Nothing is universal.
One of the most knowledgeable fishermen I've known is a Bozeman, MT area
legend, still, among those who know him.

Vern is a well-educated and now retired logger (now too old to fish) who
fly fished for white fish in winter, and caught trout any way he could
the rest of the year. Vern knew the river like no one else. Weather
conditions, river flows and time of year meant different things on
different days. And no one caught more giant brown trout than Vern:
sometimes on the fly, sometimes hardware sand sometimes bait. Star
performers can happen in any category.