I was going to suggest that you vist Bass Pro since that is one of the few places around where you live. Some of the people at Fin & Feather in Iowa city are pretty knowledgable also. I would tell you not to spend very much on your first outfit because what you like will surely change over the next year or two. It would be very good to be able to cast some of the different rods, but for right now you won't know what is good or bad and what might feel ok now with not casting experience will certainly be incorrect with a little more experience. If you buy a relatively inexpensive 5wt combo now that will get you started, then you can buy a much better setup later and keep the first as a backup or a loaner if you take a friend fishing, because the friend will be sure to ask questions and want to try fly fishing. Buy a decent rod and an inexpensive reel and spend any extra money on a good quality line and then take good care if it. Unless you start catching carp or something like that you will never use the reel for much more than storing line, while catching bluegills or crappies or bass around Red Rock. The same will hold true if you get to northern Iowa or southern Missouri trout fishing. Get some thing and get started and enjoy yourself and just understand that from here on out you will be tinkering and expermenting with all kinds of gear and will soon be asking about tying flies and so the adventure continues.