happyclam: no not at all, i been fly fishing twice, once in Wales and once in HK.
Both with my 8/9 rod. how ever since the fish here is not too big i would like to enjoy the fish instead of over gun it :)
so I got this 2/3 rod 6.5 feet for HK stream and italy. never have a chance to use it though.
mostly to over come a lot of vegetations and over handing :)
distance wise, this rod is not very gd since it's a 2#