Just found my rod and reel

Just found my old rod and reel in the basement. I'm thinking of going
fishing this weekend as well as walking, perhaps up in the Lake
District. I've not been for about 17 years!

I think I will almost definitely need a new floating line.

Will have to pop to the post office tomorrow to buy a license. Never
bought one of these before either. It used to just be some Water
Authority license I bought.

My rod is an Olympic Carbon Composite Black Fly rod. 9 1/2ft - 2.90M.

It also says #8/9 Art No A380 on it. Not sure what this means? Is it
the weight of the rod?

Mainly going to be using it on rivers.

Last time I used this I was about 13 years old. Now 30! I'm going to
give it a try, hopefully there will be no one around to see me making
a total ass of myself. Will probably go backwards into a field of cows
instead of forward into a river. From what I can remember of when I
have used it in the past, it was okay on small rivers, but on big
rivers and lakes it struggled to cast to further distances that I
needed it to go where there were some big trout. Not sure how it will
stack up now I'm no longer a scrawny 13 year old, will have too see
how it goes.

Reel says Leeda on one side and RimFly on the other. Has a + to -
turning dial on its rear.

Will have to ask about GRX Double Taper Floating Lines in a tackle
shop at the weekend like Junkster recommends in the reply 2 months
back to my post.

Cheers

John