I feel certain spots require the basket, like fishing the West Wall for albies.
That wall is the final resting place of 2 of my fly lines. Sometimes when they go in, they never come out. In fact I'm permanently scarred by it, I haven't taken a fly rod out from shore for albies since a decade or so ago when that happened.
Some rocky spots like Newport, Narragansett and similar RI spots have also tried, sometimes successfully, to eat my fly line. So I like my basket there too.
I prefer to use a basket in high current areas as well.
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