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Old December 1st, 2006, 02:48 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
vincent p. norris
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Default Help getting started.

For complete starter outfits, you might try.....

A little less than $200: http://www.ezflyfish.com/tfonxtflyrod.html


Unlike JR, I'm cheap, cheap, cheap ! After I read several favorable
comments in this newsgroup about Cabela's Three Forks fly rods, I
bought one-- a 7'6" 3-wt. Two of my friends bought them, too.

Normally $59, they were on sale for $39. I also bought a Cabela's
reel for about the same price, and a weight-forward line, again for
about $39. Total cost, barely over a hundred bucks.

I liked it so well I also bought a 5 wt.

In the current Cabela's catalog, you can buy a Three Forks rod for
$49; or a rod AND a reel for as little as $79; a Cabela's line will
cost you another $36.

If you and your son discover you don't like fly fishing, you won't be
out very much. If you do, you can buy "better" rods. But I often catch
one of the above-mentioned friends, who owns several Sage and Orvis
rods, using his cheapie Cabela's rod instead.

vince