FLY ROD vs SPINNING ROD: Which do you think is better??
Fly fishing is a technique that has become near and dear to my heart over the last 5 years or so. However, I've been spin fishing for far more years than I've been fly fishing. So I feel as if my relatively recent experience with both puts me in a good position to be able to use both and figure out which is more effective!
SPIN FISHING: Spin fishing excels at being easier to pick up and become proficient at. The casting makes it such that you can move large sections of water and hit small areas of creeks that may be difficult to cast with a fly rod. The draw back is the lack of versatility. You can only really imitate bait fish or large bugs with ease, but that's not really what trout eat most of the time.
FLY FISHING: Fly Fishing is more difficult to become proficient at, but once you get to comfortable level with the fly rod it can be way more effective. The reason being is that trout just eat bugs and fly fishing easily imitates their main foot source. Fly fishing also has the versatility to imitate baitfish, nymphs, or any sort of bug that fish may want to eat.
All in all the spinning rod actually out performed the fly rod for the native brookies. But it was cool to see what a hatch coming off did for the fly rod. When the hatches started coming off I immediately started catching trout on the fly rod and it actually started out performing the spinner. It was a cool day on a small creek!
Let me know if you want me to make another video with stocked trout, or brown trout in the comments below.
Thanks for watching! #fishing #flyfishing #spinfishing #troutfishing #outdoors
