old fenwick rod

I need some help from you fly fishers out there. I want to try to take up
again fly fishing for trout. I have a rod I bought for the purpose when I
was a kid. It's a cheap 30 year old Fenwick rod, made, I believe from glass
fibre. It is 8 1/2 feet long and says AFTM 7 on it. I assume this means its
"weight" is 7? My question is, would this be a reasonable rod to try fly
fishing again after doing it perhaps half a dozen times in Scotland as a kid
30 years ago? Opinions on this would be useful. I also need suggestions as
to what might be an appropriate reel to buy to use with it. Do I need to buy
a reel of a matching weight? I was thinking of maybe an LL Bean
"Streamlight" or an Orvis "Clearwater" or "Rocky Mountain" (These last are
now on sale.) Do any of these sound reasonable?

Just to make matters harder, I have no idea yet where I am going to fish. I
am located now in Southern California and know nothing about the
possibilities for trout fishing here, so opinions on where I might start
would also be welcome. As a kid I fished small rivers and lochs in Scotland
and I think I would like to do something similar. Northern California is a
possibility. I am somehow (and I dont want to knock anyone else's pleasure)
against sitting in a boat reeling in trout after trout in a lake that will
be restocked the minute I have gone home for the day. What I remember liking
about it as a kid was that the fishing was but one part of a whole day spent
in the wilderness with few people around.

This no doubt all sounds rather woolly, for which my apologies. I would be
genuinely grateful for any practical advice.

Dan Hugh-Jones