You are thinking dry fly for trout , where a SUPER delicate presentation is needed. Potentially lots of false casting before a dry fly lands.GOOD YEAR 71 wrote:...from what I've seen it takes time to place properly ...
Now think of the time it takes to get a bait back to your reel after you have targeted a structure to hammer and are out of the kill zone once the bait is worked around the structure.
With a fly rod you can lift the bait out of the water and have it repeatedly hammering a laydown, rocks , pads ... without having to reel through the dead zone back to your reel to cast again. Bery much time saving.
You can also get very very (ultra finnesse) flies to big fish with big rigs... and be able to keep them pinned. With fly rods you are casting the line much more than the 'bait'.