On Mon, 24 May 2004, Willi wrote:

spinner baits that he threw back into the timber. He was slaying the
fish. He probably caught more bass in the half hour I watched him than I
had caught in a half a dozen trips. Unless I'm missing something,
there's no way for a fly fisherman to even get a fly into the area
where the fish were.

It's not merely a matter of getting into the timber. When the spinner
bait bite is hot, it is HOT. The thumping of the blade plus the sounds
made when the lure bumps into the wood is a strike trigger that you'd have
a hard time duplicating with any gear.

Mu