Re: Orvis Clearwater or Rocky Mountain reel?

"Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> ....Which reel would you
> recommend (for trout) out of these two, an Orvis Clearwater and an Orvis
> Rocky Mountain?

Whichever is cheaper.

> Also, I'd like to thank all who posted responses to my original thread.

You're welcome, on their behalf.

> One guy suggested I find a fly shop with "a couple of scruffy characters
> drinking coffee" and have them sell me some line and flies and install the
> line for me. Well I went, but I won't be going back. I took my 30-year old
> rod and walked into a place in Los Angeles that specialises in fly fishing
> and the the experience made we wonder whether I really wanted to take up
fly
> fishing at all. Now I don't know whether it was because I wasn't actually
> waving a credit card at him or because it was nearly closing time, but the
> guy looked at me like I was something on the underneath of his shoe. I
will
> not go back there if I have to drive an extra  hundred miles to buy flies
> and a reel.

You got bad advice.  You SHOULD have gone to a place with a bunch of scruffy
characters drinking something that was unidentifiable yet manifestly NOT
coffee.

> Thanks for letting me vent, and for any opinions on my reel choices,

No problem.  You will discover soon enough that once you have taken that
fatal first step (and you have) there are no real choices.

Wolfgang