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Old November 12th, 2003, 11:24 PM
Dan
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Default Orvis Clearwater or Rocky Mountain reel?

I posted here three weeks ago for advice on the subject of my old Fenwick #7
rod and taking up fly fishing. I have been doing some reading to get up to
speed in the interim. Now I want to elicit opinions on a reel comparison
and I figured this would be the place to ask :-) Which reel would you
recommend (for trout) out of these two, an Orvis Clearwater and an Orvis
Rocky Mountain?

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

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.

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

Dan Hugh-Jones




 




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