I think Flytackle has a good point about the lines. I was fishing a local stream a couple of years ago and noticed a fellow I had met before fly fishing with a big white Shakespear Wonder rods of rods and an old reel filled with what appeared to be level line. I found out he used the set-up for years and wasn't all to bad with the rig. I convinced him to try my reel loaded with Cortland WF7F line and he oblighed. From then on it was grins from ear to ear and since then he purchsed new Cortland line and says he can't thank me enough whenever I see him. I told him I'd let him use my rod someday, he thanked me and said "one thing at a time" I think he knows what would happen.