Thread: New fly rod advice - weight and brands/models?

there are bargains to be had on the yellow site.... my good wife bought me a nice 4 piece 8wt that I love to use up at lake....can handle the wind well too....it wont do anything the 40 yearold procaster 8/9 wt cant do better...simple 2 piece rod that just works..... found a 6wt 6piece that had snapped tip section...so its now 8'6'' near enough and it works very well.the couple of times its been used it seems to handle fish ok...not as robust as the 8wt but managable
I do believe there is a hell of a lot of rodsnobbery out there...Ive used top of the line rods and to be honest they did nothing for me.
wind is a bugger of a thing...I can manage to carry on with the 8wt...but the wee rod is not really a happening thing .