Welcome to the board. The Orvis is a nice acquisition, but you will find that many of us enjoy our rods of no particular distinction as much as we enjoy the more expensive and celebrated rods. I have rods at both ends of the spectrum and enjoy almost all of them.

Larry

Welcome! You're going to like this place.The combined knowledge of the members is nothing short of amazing...The search function is your friend.Plug in the make,model# and there's a great chance that you'll get some great info.Has helped me immensely. As an aside, you get my vote for "BEST USER NAME EVER" !!!

Welcome.

Newfydog,

I live near Wash DC now but grew up in MI.

I now mainly fish for trout in PA streams and small mouth in rivers and large mouth in lakes here in VA. I have done a lot of GL steel head and salmon fishing in MI. Long ago I also fished several of the trout waters in Bosnia.

I really like to fish streamers, nymphs, and soft hackles. Not a dry fly purist by any means and do not chase the hatches but old attractor patterns -- Wulffs, , Brown Drake Stimulators, Royal Coachmen (Trudes especially), and Adams -- are always in my vest and do their time raising fish on the water. Oh, and mice in dim light.

I am toying with the musky chasing game this spring here in VA.

My two 3 wt glass rods are a GCR from Cabela's and a custom rod from Midwest custom Fly Rods in Royal Oak MI. Both are yet to be seriously tested on major fish.

Hedonnist

Welcome. Love your username!

Welcome and you will have a lot of fun and info via this forum.

Nico
Yamame fly rods