Ultralight spin vs. Fly Fishing for NJ trout....

[senkosam]

A good bait fisherman will outfish flies and lures pretty much every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

True if forced to fish one or a few spots. But lures not only cover territory, they find fish and fish patterns that bait and flies can not. Finesse lures outfish flies in my experience because of the huge variety of lure actions, shapes, sizes and lure speeds applied. Larger lures can get reaction strikes better from larger fish - trout not being much different than most freshwaterbullies.

Convincing fish of this or that or fishing for hungry fish seems second thought when the only thing important is how irritable or active the fish is when it senses your lure. For all I know it just ate and has a full belly.

In the sense of suspended school fish minding their own business, here comes a lure one gets hooked on and BAM! more are caught one after another. A fly may get the response, though doubtful in my experience with other freshwater species.

JMHO and 50 yrs. experience