Harleybob,
In an earlier herein published nail biting recount of my latest fishing experience in Wyoming ( from which I am now returning and am on the road in Mitchell SD) I fished for the first four days with a SA Wally World special at $19.95. I was under the impression I was using my Orvis TRident TLS since it too was green like the SA. Ya know somethin??, the fish, vast quantities of them, NEVER knew the difference. I can honestly say that, after discovering the mix-up, the Orvis did feel a bit "smoother", whatever that means in casting a fly rod, but IT DID. At $10 bucks a pop, I too would have emptied Wally's shelves of it's bargain. I'm surprised and proud to report the SA rod did NOT explode under the severe pressures of pretensiousness in posh Jackson Hole Wyo and in fact held it's ground admirably.

Mark