I've got this vision of how flyfishing should work. I'm not sure where the vision came from, movies, too drunk to sleep 4am fishing shows, cabelas advertisements? I'd characterize it as mostly dry flies, or active casting/stripping sort of activity.

I was fishing Munn in Olympia yesterday and watched guys in pontoons and float tubes cast and then just kick around backwards most of the time. It felt more like trolling than fly fishing. The action didn't seem too intense so I wasn't too discouraged by my failure to hook a fish.

I guess I'm asking when are dry flies or active fishing most effective? I gave up and trolled a dodger/wedding ring after a while and hooked/released a big holdover. If I was going to troll I guess I'd rather do that than pull a fly around.