I'm a bit of a hacker at fly fishing, got in to it about 10 years ago for a few years and at the time bought a Temple Fork Outfitters Signature which at the time was recommended as a good starter rod. I'd have to agree with that its caught me a fair jag of fish and taught me the basics, but I haven't done any fly fishing for several years. So I'm still an intermediate or so rate fly fisher, but have done tons of other types of fishing.
I want to get back in to fly fishing trout again and figure its time to kick it up a notch. I'll keep the TFO as a spare/loaner it wears an old Dragonfly reel with one spare spool. I have a Snowbee cassette reel with 3 spools that I'll put on the new rod. So... what's a good 5 wt rod in the mid range I guess? Not in to dropping a grand but will probably step up from a hundy, lol. I was looking at some Fenwicks, Redington etc. in the 2-300 range but the models are all greek to me. I would be mainly fishing smaller lakes, the odd river. Any input welcomed