05-11-2011, 01:27 PM
A good place to find some info on fly stuff is in the flyfishing section on here actually.
For starters I wouldn't worry about something expensive, its a glorified line holder for you and not much else. In the past 5 years I can think of maybe a hand ful of times that the drag on the reel has made any type of difference on my fly rods and all of them have been while throwing my 2 wt on the south fork when I should have been throwing a big rod.
Watch at DI there are occasionally full setups that come through for 20 and 30 bucks. I just picked one up for an extra that buddies cant beat the water with when they want to try FFing.
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For starters I wouldn't worry about something expensive, its a glorified line holder for you and not much else. In the past 5 years I can think of maybe a hand ful of times that the drag on the reel has made any type of difference on my fly rods and all of them have been while throwing my 2 wt on the south fork when I should have been throwing a big rod.
Watch at DI there are occasionally full setups that come through for 20 and 30 bucks. I just picked one up for an extra that buddies cant beat the water with when they want to try FFing.
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