I started fly fishing five or six years ago on a regular basis after spending a couple of seasons toying with a rudimentary flyfishing rod and reel outfit I put together. Some days when I'm fishing I feel a little like Jekyl and Hyde. In other words, what do I carry onto the beach or the breakwater, the spinning gear or the fly gear? Most days I carry both if its practical. Both offer a tremendous amount of satisfaction, but deep down if I were to choose which of the two gave me the greatest amount of enjoyment I would have to answer the flyrod and reel.
I have a Lamiglass, a St. Croix, and a Sage flyrod, all ten weights. The Sage rplxi is without question my favorite as well it should be considering how much it cost me to build it. If I gave you any advice for a first-timer, go cheap. Try it and see if you like flyrodding. For some it is terribly humbling, and for some of us at least at first it can be humiliating, too. If you don't hook yourself you will at the very least get whacked in the head on the fore cast more than once. And if your really unlucky you'll hook yourself. So have some sterile tools (and neosporin) around to pull those little # 1 and #2 hooks out of your ears and scalp, and the back of your neck.
I hit myself in the back of my head at the base of my skull with a clouser so hard a few times I saw stars. Besides if yur flyfsh you get to have more toys........
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