By adding variety to your fishing trip to Montana, you are only enhancing the specialness of each day spent on the stream. In addition, wade fishing can be done at a more relaxed pace. Sometimes, that is just what is needed. Of course not everyone wishes or is able to wade fish, but then that's the whole point. Not everyone wishes to spend every day in a boat.
Guides are like that too.
Consider how embarrassing it is for our guides to wear out the seat of their Orvis waders before the felt goes. Some days I prefer to float, but more and more I choose to wade. In either case I'm increasingly using my guidebooks on birds, flowers, geology, or tracks. I'm spending more time looking at the scenery or watching a bald eagle watch me. I've long known most of our native trees, but now I'm interested in shrubs, sedges, and grasses.