However, here is my counsel to you: Use the rod you already have until you become proficient with it.
Once you become a competent caster, then you might think about purchasing a more expensive rod. I liken the new fly fisher who goes out and buys an expensive rod to the first-time golfer who goes out and spends several hundred dollars for a set of golf clubs. I did just that when I started playing golf, and within a couple of months, my clubs looked terrible. Persimmon woods all scratched and dinged up and irons all scarred. I'd have been better off to go to a second hand store and buy a $50 set of clubs to learn on.
Even today, most of my fly rods are in the $60 - $100 range. And they cast just about as good as my
$ 1200 Orvis bamboo and $ 500 Thomas & Thomas. While you're learning, you won't notice much difference in most decent fly rods. That'll come later as you become more discerning in your rods and what you want to accomplish with them.
Cheers,
JIMMY
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Ed none wrote:
I'm kind of new to flyfishing I have a 8ft 6wt rod.
Whats the difference between an 8ft and a 9ft or a 8ft and a 10 ft what's the advantages and are they worth the extra money ?
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