Agree with Mike on this. If you are a fly fisher, sometimes you are traveling and will troll a fly behind the canoe. Its not that its 'better' as its hard to beat a rapala, but its still a lot of 'fun', if you like fly fishing. Sometimes you might give up on numbers, if you think a spinning presentation might be a better numbers approach, to enjoy your personal preferred method. Just like you might want to target walleyes instead of the easier smallies.

Also, if you tie flies, you can create your own streamers that match the local forage very well, play with different materials etc. Over the winter months (like right now), I'm tying up lots of flies and dreaming of ice out lakers and brookies. Its just a lot of fun.

With super fast sinking lines you can get down very deep with your flies. Its a blast picking up huge lakers/pike on a streamer you tied yourself, even if its by trolling the fly. Then you can still use that rod to cast the shallows or drop offs, just by switching reels with different lines on them, or just switch lines via loop to loop connections (my preferred method).

Moonman.