Big John, You are stuck in a common but wrong headed RUT concerning fly fishing.
IT'S NOT ABOUT CASTING. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. IT'S NOT MYSTERIOUS.

With a little practice anyone can flip an indicator or feed out a sinking line behind a raft or boat and be fly fishing without any talent casting to speak of.
Now dry fly fishing that's another matter. But that is of secondary importance in most of our lakes.

With some elemental knowledge of what trout eat during the course of a season, plus a couple dozen of the right fly patterns and you could be in business.

But why switch from bait you ask??? Well even if you didn't ask I'm gonna tell ya!! Catch and Release fishing is the thing of the future because our F&G will not be able to maintain stocking a million smallish trout to be jerked out with cheap spinning gear and eaten every year forever. And where is the quality of experience in that?? Sure it's great training for the kids and some must always be around.

But the keen SPORT fisherman wants to catch large trout in good quantity in quality setting and that demands Catch and Release........and it's best done by fly fishing.