So, like every year, the family has no sweet clue what to get me for Christmas. Well, I think I would like to have a nice trout rod/reel to fish speckled or brook trout on the streams. I only trout fish a couple or three times a year so I don't want to spend a whole pile but my St. Croix Avid 9 foot 8 weight with Teton Tioga is just a little much for brook trout. I really love my Avid which I use for Atlantic Salmon and smallmouth bass, but with the little trout flies, it just pounds them too hard, not to mention no play at all when you hook one. I would like to stick with the St. Croix, maybe the Triumph or Reign in an 8 foot 4 weight. For a reel I am leaning toward a Tioga, they work so well.

What do you think? What would you choose for length/weight? I only have ever used an 8 weight for everything.

Dwight