I have been taking a backpack and walking to some spots lately, and have found a interesting thing. I have been taking a 8' noodlerod and and a spinning and fly reel with me. I am convenced that when gills are shallow and not real active a fly rod is better. I am looking for a good 4wt flyrod blank 7'6" long. I was thinking of putting a tennessee handle on it with those rings so when useing a fly reel you could mount the reel back and with a spinning reel you could mount it forward. My buddy sean laughs at my bubba rig. A noodle rod with a fly reel on it. I smoked his butt with it when he was fishing trout flies. I was useing a floating wt forward line with a single salmon egg hook with only a berkley gulp maggot on it. It sunk very slowly and got way more bits. I love my bubba rig even if it aint cool or in style. I had rather catch fish than look like a dude in a LLbean catalog.