Brooks, you have to admit that there are places where flyfishing and gear fishing are incompatible and wopuld be better if they didn't fish the exact same water. Come stand in a steelhead lineup on the coast with me and you'll see what I mean. Unfortunantly, we now live in a society where too many people are only worried about ME, ME, ME, ... and aren't considerate enough to say "self, that guy is flyfishing that spot, why don't I take my lazy butt around the next bend and fish there." Nope, the bum will low hole you and then bitch about you and your elitist gear.
Sometimes I curse modern medicine for extending the lifespan of some people who would be better off in the next plane of existence. (present company excluded, of course.)
PS> Please never try to tell me carpool lanes reduce traffic. That is the biggest screwing Jerry Brown ever did to California's freeways.

I'd rather eat roadkill than vote for that freak.