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You’re equipment is less important than you casting ability. An 8 or 9 wt rod with a short-headed floating line is what I’d suggest as a starting place. Casting a fly line is not intuitive for most people. The rod tip needs to travel in a straight line parallel to the water, not in an arc as with other tackle. This is not simple since the rod bends as you accelerate it. There are also important timing issues as to when and how much force you apply. Finally you need to maintain line tension with the line hand all through the cast. Trying to do all this right when faced with a seething school of albies and only seconds to get a cast off is a hard way to learn. By all means it is worth doing, however. Albies are fun fish on a spinning rod but world class fish on a fly rod. Once you realize that you’ll have a hard time throwing metal ever again.
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