Divr, the rod that I suggested to you is a 4 peice. Packs up nice and small. I normally just take it a part and leave it in the Jeep. She's a stout rod and has good action. If you are going after trout, I would stick with a 4 or 5 weight rod. If you haven't fly fished before I would probably go with a 5. If you plan on hooking into some Bass or something, then I would suggest a 6 wt rod. There are plent of good rods out there.
varmit, I would go with the Orvis. I like their stuff just cannot afford it. The problem is with a split weight rod, in my limited experiance, is it will throw one weight or the other better. You just need to practice to see wich line it will cast better. The good thing is that Courtland (I think anyways) has half weight lines out, that's something else to check on. I think they run from like 3.5 wt up to like 7.5 wt, I'm not sure. I only saw the 5.5 wt line. Also if you are new to fly fishing, I would get a weight foward line. It shows 5 WF-F on the box. It does not roll cast as well as other lines, but it will help with casting.
Hope this helps both of you.
Aaron
