[Bill Douglas]

Jeff, my fly rod and reel are from when I was a ten year old but with new floating line. Not high end line, but OK stuff, and the setup worked like it used to. I did a five days away motorbike ride on my old Honda - a bit like your one and took the gear with me. I cut a section of plastic rain pipe that I could squeak the two piece fly rod into and off I went.

In eight hours of fishing a remote mountain river I got 11 trout and kept one. The funny thing is a buddy who laughed at my gear and had to have the best of the best did a big trout fishing trip for a week and got nothing.