Cabelas CGR and prestige plus reel. Line advice needed

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Hey all! I am new to fly fishing so I have some questions. After much reading I am almost totally confused. Seems like I read that "much learning has made him mad."

Anyway I ordered a CGR 7' 4/5 wt rod and the prestige plus #2 reel. I know this is entry level equipment but that's where I'm at. I am kinda leaning to a 4wt line that is 1/2 heavier to put me between the 4 and 5 wt. Any info on line wt. brands and backing would be helpful.

We have a week at Phils in July and then again in Sept. I don't know if I'll get to use the fly rod there but I'm going to try. Hopefully sometime in the future I will get to fish some steams down there.

Back around 1980 I bought a 8' 7wt Diawa fly rod and a martin #63 tuna can reel. I used it a couple of times on bluegill with a rubber spider. I wasn't to successful with my casting or catching so I put it away and forgot about it. I just recently dug it out of the attic and have been practicing casting in the yard. I have no idea what weight line is on it and there is no backing at all. I can pretty much get 35' consistently on a good day 40' but that's about it.

My parents came to the USA in '48 from Canada. Every summer we would go on vacation "back home". Problem was is that all my relatives spoke french and I didn't. When I was 9 or 10 yrs old dad took me to my aunt and uncles farm where he spent time as a kid. These people spoke English and a cousin of mine spent the summers there. They didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing. There was running water in the kitchen sink from an underground spring and it ran 24/7. If you wanted hot water you got a pot full and put it on the wood burning stove. Boy could my aunt cook/bake on that thing. there was also a little creek there that was fed from that spring and it held brookies.

Now in most places us kids could step across it; but them brookies (although small) were in there. our poles were branches and a few feet of line. We dug red worms out of the manure pile or used grasshoppers for bait. I spent a month each summer after that fishing, picking wild blueberries or any other adventure we could think of . Whatever we caught or picked aunt Eleanor would fix for us. Had many a breakfast of wild blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and fried trout. Sunday suppers were always fried chicken. A few times aunt Eleanor found BBs under the chickens skin. I don't know how they got there.

My dad didn't hunt or fish so I didn't get to do much of either until I got back to the farm each summer. As I have gotten older I miss those days. I guess I chose a glass rod out of nostalgia more than anything else.