"Dan" wrote in message
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....Which reel would you
recommend (for trout) out of these two, an Orvis Clearwater and an Orvis
Rocky Mountain?

Whichever is cheaper.

Also, I'd like to thank all who posted responses to my original thread.

You're welcome, on their behalf.

One guy suggested I find a fly shop with "a couple of scruffy characters
drinking coffee" and have them sell me some line and flies and install the
line for me. Well I went, but I won't be going back. I took my 30-year old
rod and walked into a place in Los Angeles that specialises in fly fishing
and the the experience made we wonder whether I really wanted to take up
fly
fishing at all. Now I don't know whether it was because I wasn't actually
waving a credit card at him or because it was nearly closing time, but the
guy looked at me like I was something on the underneath of his shoe. I
will
not go back there if I have to drive an extra hundred miles to buy flies
and a reel.

You got bad advice. You SHOULD have gone to a place with a bunch of scruffy
characters drinking something that was unidentifiable yet manifestly NOT
coffee.

Thanks for letting me vent, and for any opinions on my reel choices,

No problem. You will discover soon enough that once you have taken that
fatal first step (and you have) there are no real choices.

Wolfgang