This is also not a fair assessment. Flyfishing requires stealth and if
you are fishing with someone who is pitching hardware the fish will
become far more suspicious and go back in cover. This is the reason
crankbaits work so effective the splash may cause them to retreat but
the bead sound causes them to attack. The same goes with a good worm
fishermen the fish feel more comfortable in deep cover attacking even if
they are suspicious. The flyrodder relies on stealth to bring the bass
to his popper which causes comotion that is suppose to resemble a
natural behavior. Hardware fishing will try to envoke an anger strike
(most of the time) and have the bass throw caution to the wind. A
flyrodder tries to resemble a natural prey and have him attack prey. You
can't really fish next to a hardware fishermen in the same boat and
expect to consistently win. Flyfishing and baitcasting are two entirely
different styles of angling. You cannot be an effective flyrod basser
using baitcasting techniques just as you cannot be an effective baitcast
angler using flyrod techniques. They are not the same. Tha is my point
and the reson why I feel so many bass flyrodders are not as successful.
They are trying to use the same technique as the baitcaster with a
flyrod. It's the same as comparing an artificial angler to a live bait
fishermen.

Steve
Sebring, FL