Just because someone practices a more difficult method of angling doesn't make them an "elitist". What it does is make them a thinking angler.

A "bait chucker" (I like your phrase) is a person who hasn't come to that stage in his life where he feels the need to make things more difficult. He's still stuck in numbers of fish or size of fish.
Remember that making things more difficult generally lessens numbers caught or size caught.

And if you get a yahoo like that who also thinks his way is best... then you got a person who has some lead between his ears.

I fly fish by choice. It's my choice and I don't try to ram it down someone's throat.

What I do try and ram down there is that they should think and not just shoot off their mouths to be heard. Usually in that case the person who wants to hear them most is the person doing the loudest talking.

Anyone who thinks the "powerbait" argument was over which angling method was the most correct has that lead between his ears. What it was about was angling ethics, cleaning up after yourself, cleaning up after others who are messy (and there's a bunch of those) and trying to remove "lead" from anglers who call fly fishermen elitists..

Fishfreak, I would think that you of all, since you profess to be a big brother, you would understand the part of assisting others in ethics and thinking in more than just an egocentric manner. I mention "egocentric" as thats the methods kids think in.. them first and others second.. if they even take the time to think of others.

Egocentric thinking is what I observe when I usually see a gathering of bank fishermen... and what's left over when they depart to go back home.

I've fished with some of the posters on this board, FishinfellaS for one. I went with a bunch of strangers last spring on a lake clean up. Tied flies with others from this board. Yanked a few's chains with my stories of bank fishing trips....

But there's a few you you new people I have my doubts about.

So... next....