re: How not to sight fish....

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What I find interesting is that it seems he has himself convinced that he can always catch more fish blind casting versus a skilled sight fisherman no matter what. Maybe I'm reading that wrong, but it seems that's his stance.

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Yeah It's hard to tell. Either way it's apples and oranges. I don't think I've ever heard of, or seen a poling skiff hauling in redfish hand over fist. However, I've seen and been on boats that anchored next to a drain and sat there and caught dozens of redfish, maybe even over 100. I guess that could be considered blind casting.

As a general rule, if you can see the redfish, the redfish can see you. Poling around in shallow water is not a high yield game like drowning bait under a cork. Numbers wise, I'd be willing to bet someone who fishes bait will pull in more fish.

I would rather spot, stalk, and land 5 fish in an 8 hour day than sit in one spot and catch 100 with bait.

It's not really fair to compare to the two philosophies.