My favourite is a 5-6 foot telescopic rod (I notice a bunch of shakespeare rods on amazon for less than $20). I also add a quantum snapshot reel (had it for 12 years).

I bring an aluminum fly tin half full of flies, 2 or 3 wedding bands, a couple other spinners, a spinning float, half a dozen hooks, snap swivels, weights.

The key for me is the spinning (torpedo) float. I rarely use a fly rod any more as you can cast with the torpedo float and you don't need a complicated setup.

I've attached a photo of the result of this setup. All were caught with a torpedo float and fly or wedding band.


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Description: Fishing in a mountain lake. We probably caught 40 or 50 in a couple hours, but these are the ones we kept. They were all over 13 inches.


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