[superkuh]

Yeah, match the hatch matters, but not as much as you think if you give them something else juicy.

I live on a class 1 trout stream. I've talked to plenty of fancily dressed fly fisherman in for tourism struggling to catch large trout. I do better with a worm or grasshopper on a hook. And the funniest of all is that the biggest browns I've caught were using bread by the local hydroelectric dam because people feed the ducks there and the trout adapted.

Fish are fish. Trout are nothing special. The environmental beauty is still there when using a spinning rod.

[zibby8]

In your anecdote, your comparing tourists to a local. Of course a local is going to be more productive regardless of tackle. There are a lot of anecdotes here, with very little data.