Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge and preferences, now it's time for me to start shopping for the best price. Some of you have suggested building my own fly rods and I'm looking forward to the day, which probably will be in a few years. Seems like we have a good number of experienced fly fishers here, so I'm sure I'll be taking advantage of you guys if you don't mind. smile

As mentioned earlier I'm probably going to get a 9' or 9'6" 7 wt. moderate-fast rod. I have a couple of Redington RS2 7/8 reels I bought on eBay coming to me this week, so I'm eager to match one of them up with a rod soon. What I would like to know now is where I can find good prices on a fly rod.