Utlra light maybe not ultra right (yet)

photo, a photo by cklineUHC on Flickr.

First time out on the water with the new ultralight fly rod set-up. I had a old 5wt line at home so I strung the reel with that. There are a few things wrong. The rod line guides are very small and a knot to connect the fly line to the backing can even go thru the largest guides. And the other thing is also a big deal, you can't get more then 15ft of fly line on the reel. So I must drop the line wt to a 1 or zero if I can find it.
The rod is a little difficult to cast but after a while I found that a roll cast and then a cast like I was casting into the wind work, but only up to 15 ft.