I was pissed when californa went to a one rod rule. I troll a lot of lakes and part of my tatics is presenting what looks like a small school of bait fish. with my son or a friend on board i can put out 4 lures in a group or spread them out for different fish. a standerd set up on a trout lake would be one lure at 60ft or just under were the thermal layer is ,one just above the layer, both just ten feet or less off the rigger. The third would be at 30 ft 100 ft behind the boat and then another on a side planer 200 ft behind the boat and out to the side 30 ft. If the fish miss the deep lures they will some times see the one at thirty and hit it as they drop back from the boat. the side planer lure, always a broken back rapala, will pick up any fish that are shallow and move out of the way of the boat. I have seen fish in clear water move away from a boat about 20 ft and them move back in behind the boat after the boat moves by. the side planer put s a bait fish imataion right in their path. This set up also allowes you to find at what depth the fish are hitting, note I did not say holding. I have spent too many hours trolling were the fish are and not at were they are hitting.
another benifit is that by using differnet lures at different depths I can target macks and browns while getting some bows. I may only get one big brown in a weekend but by having lures at shallowers depths I can fill my limit with bows. that way the whole week end is not a bust.
As far as bank fishing goes I hate to sit and watch a rod do nothing. so having a spinning set up to fool with helps keep me from going stir crazy. I would like to say that at no time have I every reeled in a dead fish while dealing with multiple hook ups.
Lets be honest I love trolling becouse I get to fool around with my gear all day long. having just one rod to worry about is just not enough for me. by the way cailforna when to a $5 second rod stamp in a very short time and it was peta and the serria club that worked behind the scene to gett the one rod rule in the first place. they were hopping people would get pissed and stop fishing and for a short time they did. the number of licences sold dropped enough that Ca dept for fish and game was worrried about their buget and to help battle is they started the two rod stamp
I would be interested in seeing what it would that to get a two rod stamp going. It would mean a lot of money for projects that the eviro wacks like. Hows the saying go "show them the money" .