I'll have to confess. I own two flyrods. One is a Browning 7.5ft 5/6 weight that I got for a song back in the 90's. The other is a Heddon (I think) Mark X "Magnum Action" 8.5ft 8 weight rod. I forget where the heck I got that thing, but I THINK it was at a yard sale.

Anyhoo....I hope Hide Hunter checks in here, cause I'd like to know a little about that Heddon rod....I think it is from the 60's or 70's.

I rarely use either. However, I did put a new leader and some tippet on the Browning rod a few weeks ago. I used to use it occasionally on those (small) trout we used to catch in the Chattahooche River. But, in recent years I've used it for bass in Lake Co9 with topwater bass popper frog flys. It is REALLLLLY cool when a bass boils up on a topwater fly. I also like to use this rig to catch bream. I neeeeeed to get on a bed full of bream with some of those little topwater bream bugs.

I haven't been out with the fly rod since I got sick...but that crap is gonna change!!!!