Very often this scapegoat is the corn or bait fisherman who is accused of fishing out the streams. The corn men are blamed particularly for stripping the river of its trophy fish. Hardly a fishing trip passes for me when I am talking to fly fishermen that some disparaging remark is not made about the corn and bait fishermen. Instead of complaining so much about the corn men, the fly fishermen need to learn to fish better. They could fish better within the limits of their tackle if they gave up some of the ill-founded mythology of fly fishing and used their tackle for the effective tool that it can be.
Effective fishing means a new fishing style for most fly fishermen.
If you are not doing roll casts, you are not in the places fish like to lie. They leave their vehicle and start in, not paying much attention, and suddenly they are surprised by the deer that leaps up behind them when they have passed. Fly fishermen will wade the stream for dozens of yards only to see fish rising in a place they just passed. My first and best lesson in fly fishing came from a college colleague who was an unorthodox outdoorsman. He loved custom bamboo rods, but scorned virtually every other traditional element of fly fishing.