First Fly Rod, Reel and line Questions??

"Erratic Grouse" wrote in message
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Hello,

I recently purchased my first fly rod, a 5wt 4 piece. Now I need to
find a reasonably priced reel to go with it. Most of my fishing will be
for trout on small to medium sized streams in the Pacific Northwest.
There will also be the occasional lake and pond fishing for trout and
bass.

My questions a

1.) What is a good reel for a college student on very limited budget?
I'd like to keep the price of the reel under $50. I see alot of
pflueger reels priced inexpensively($30). I've also seen A redington
in my price range. I plan on upgrading at some point, so I can have a
back up rod or one for friends to use. My main concern is to be able to
some serious fishing from now until winter.

2) Do I need a large arbor reel? Would you mind explaining what that
is?

3) I've read that a good quality line is more important than the reel,
is this true?
What would be a good line? I can probably drop another 40-50 bucks on
this.

4) Which type of line would you reccomend? Weight Forward or a double
taper.

Well, all of the experts (and many of them really are) seem to be busy
elsewhere at the moment, so I'll give you a couple of idaes as a warmup. A
disc drag mechanism is a good thing to have on a fly rell.....not absolutely
necessary for small to medium trout, but good nevertheless. And you never
know when you're going to run into something bigger, right? Okuma used to
put out a reel they called "Sierra" for about what you're looking to pay.
Don't know if they still make it, but it or something comparable would do
you well. A large arbor reel is one on which the minimum diameter of the
spool that the line gets wound on is much greater than that of the standard
reels, say, roughly two to four inches as compared to less than an inch. Pi
x diameter says the large arbor will spool up line a LOT faster. Again, not
necessary. But, it doesn't hurt, either. Weight forward vs. double tapered
is an eternal and eternally silly debate. It really doesn't matter. Can't
help you with brand or model selection.

Thanks for reading all of this and thanks in Advance for any responses,

You're welcome. You'll get a lot of other opinions. Take none of them too
seriously. Fly fishing, like anything else is something that you will
like.....or you won't. Absent some truly bad luck or decision making (I
mean phenomenally bad!) gear selection as a newby will have little to do
with it. Learn to do whatever the equipment you choose will allow you to do
and you can't go wrong.

Oh, and don't be surprised if this discussion goes off on a bit of a
tangent........it's been known to happen.

Good luck.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang wrote:

know when you're going to run into something bigger, right? Okuma used to
put out a reel they called "Sierra" for about what you're looking to pay.
Don't know if they still make it, but it or something comparable would do
you well.

http://www.okumafishing.com/products...rra/sierra.htm