Chuck wrote: It appears the CT isn't right or left "handed". It has what
looks
to be a matching pair of spring and pawls, so I'm guessing it doesn't
really matter which way I set it up.

You got that right. I find that the way it is set up out of the box works fine
for me. I only use drag to keep the reel from overspooling and it does fine for
that.

On the leaders, I just buy a 12 foot leader and shorten the butt by three or
four geet before glueing it to the tip of the fly line. I like to avoid as many
knots as possible due mto all the vegetation in most of the waters that I fish.

Sounds like a cool outfit to me. I got a call from my rod builder yesterday and
he said that he had finished putting the new cool little Leo Eck reel seat on
my Temple Fork 8.5 foot 3 weight 4 piece rod. We will have a good time playing
with it at Rendezvous this weekend. I think I am planning on only taking 4
three weights rods there this weekend.

Toys are cool

Big Dale.