Jeff Miller wrote:

Dan wrote:

1) Given that I am a beginner, ........

......... however,
you'd be well-served to contact wally at ezflyfish.com and tell him your
price point and your needs, then trust him (yeah, i know) to send you a
good starting rig. that way, you can blame it all on him. g bill
kiene's shop is out your way somedamnwhere in the californication
territory. check with him too. before you give cabela's a buck, think
about shopping with one of these fellas.

And if it makes you more comfortable, Dan, you can rest assured that
neither of them has been implicated (yet, anyway) in the growing scandal
surrounding flyshop owners who purposely break the tips off 9' rods and
attempt to pass them off as the increasingly popular 8'6" models.....

JR