Fly Fishing vs Spin Fishing: Which is better?? (Trout Fishing)

FLY ROD vs SPINNING ROD: Which do you think is better??

Fly fishing is a technique that has become near and dear to my heart over the last 5 years or so. However, I've been spin fishing for far more years than I've been fly fishing. So I feel as if my relatively recent experience with both puts me in a good position to be able to use both and figure out which is more effective!

SPIN FISHING: Spin fishing excels at being easier to pick up and become proficient at. The casting makes it such that you can move large sections of water and hit small areas of creeks that may be difficult to cast with a fly rod. The draw back is the lack of versatility. You can only really imitate bait fish or large bugs with ease, but that's not really what trout eat most of the time.

FLY FISHING: Fly Fishing is more difficult to become proficient at, but once you get to comfortable level with the fly rod it can be way more effective. The reason being is that trout just eat bugs and fly fishing easily imitates their main foot source. Fly fishing also has the versatility to imitate baitfish, nymphs, or any sort of bug that fish may want to eat.

All in all I was surprised at how badly the spinning rod lost to the fly rod. Rainbow trout do typically favor bugs, but even so the fly rod out fished the spinning rod 10 to 1 almost. Now granted these were wild trout and stocked trout may be different, but either way these results should speak for themselves. Spinner fishing is usually a crazy effective technique and one I used for years.

Let me know if you want me to make another video with stocked trout, brown trout, or brook trout in the comments below.

Thanks for watching! #fishing