Figured I'd share this. I got home from work today and my buddy called me up saying how he went fishing today, how he tried to cheat. The idiot went to a Remote Trout Pond that is fly fishing only with a spin cast and pale of worms. So he goes rolling in thinking he's gonna be walking out of those woods with a sack full of trout for dinner. NOTHING! Not a bite. Empty handed. I said, serves you right. He said, "there's no fish in there man".

 Is this a common case of the trout will only eat what they are used to eating? They've never seen a worm on a hook before, but a fly on a hook yes? Or is it more of a thing where trout like that will only eat top water (flies) and not something bouncing off the bottom? Interesting. i hope next time he gets busted.  ;D

You should turn his dumb a@# in, I hate people like that!  >

Anyway to your questions (I'm a trout guy).  The fish are eating worms anywhere you go because that is a main staple of the fish's diet after a rain storm. Helgimites and numerous other emerging nymphs are all over the bottom of the water column. Trout eat 80% of their diet under the surface. So in the end your "friend" doesn't know how to fish for trout, especially if he thinks there is no trout in a "trophy trout fly fish area only."

Ah. He's just an idiot. He knows how to fish but maybe it was just karma kicking him in the ***. He'll get busted this year for sure. No boaters certificate....... among other things. Thanks for the tip on the trout. I did not know that. I as an advid trout seeker should know these things. Maybe I need to brush up.

The biggest trout i have seen caught were on strom swimbaits.  But for me some staples are the white roostertail, some silver castmasters, and rapala originals.  Can't beat those three baits