Hi Curtis:
Hey I'm never really in the mood to argue either, I just like to preach conservation
because I think the long term future of all fishing depends on it and we're not adopting it nearly fast enuff.. Bait fishing does still it's place for those younger and those unable to afford or master flyfishing C&R.
My main complaint is that you baiters have it nearly ALL while we have a piddiling few
lakes that are getting so overcrowded it's a shame to fish them on a weekend. And that you get a new crop of planters to jerk out and eat every year while they ignore lakes like Blue and Aenias after rehabing and don't even suppliment them enuff to keep the fishing good.

Your flyfishing can be amazingly much more productive than Powerbaiting. I love to Bait (no pun intended) the powerbaiters sometimes by fishing out front of them nailing fish after fish while they catch the occasional fish. Love to hear them squeal "God he's got another one, wonder what he's a usin??" The only time bait is more effective than flies is early in the year when most lakes are very low on natural food.
So if your doing better on bait it's only because you've failed to learn the more commonly effective
flyfishing methods of Chironomiding (bobber fishing with a pupa fly) and/or nymph dragging (trolling sloooowly with a sinking line and fly). Neither one is particularly expensive nor hard to learn compared to Dry Fly fishing,which everyone thinks of when someone says Flyfishing. Now that's hard to learn and can be real expensive.