In the market for a new fly rod and suggestions

[Tazasorus]

The one day I got down on my belly to try to cradle this big brown trout and my wallet fell out of my pocket and into the river. There was so much plastic though in the wallet that if floated and headed down the river, the problem was that I couldn't land the brown. When deep sea fishing I have dropped the rod tip and launched sizable fish over my shoulder onto the boat. So I gave that brown a little slack started to pull him towards me, dropped the tip and launched him over my head. Worked great, except it shattered my rod in four pieces. I dropped the rod, ran down the river 50 yards and retrieved my wallet. That was a $240 rod. You guys are right, having a long armed net is the answer, I have one, but people give me weird looks when I am in the middle of Idaho falls carrying this massive net. I guess weird looks are better than broken rods.
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