Re: Orvis Clearwater or Rocky Mountain reel?

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:24:50 -0800, "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I posted here three weeks ago for advice on the subject of my old Fenwick #7
>rod and taking up fly fishing. I have been doing some reading to get up to
>speed in the interim. Now I want to elicit  opinions on a reel comparison
>and I figured this would be the place to ask :-) Which reel would you
>recommend (for trout) out of these two, an Orvis Clearwater and an Orvis
>Rocky Mountain?
>
>Also, I'd like to thank all who posted responses to my original thread.
>
>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.
>
>Thanks for letting me vent, and for any opinions on my reel choices,
>
>Dan Hugh-Jones
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We've all been there. There's a fly shop about 60 miles north of us, the only
one within about an hours drive. It's in heavy duty tourist country. I've been
in there twice. Both times I was given the once over , followed by the kind of
look I used to get from some of my first wife's rich relatives ( a strange look
combining condescension with antipathy) and  then ignored. Phooey on them. 

As far as the reels go, the Rocky Mountain is probably a bit heavier than the
Clearwater and may balance your fiberglass Fenwick a bit better. Also it has a
better drag IIRC (the Clearwater still has the plain, unadjustable click and
pawl,right?).

g.c.