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**Ken Fortenberry** · March 19th, 2007, 07:05 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:
... MOST
LINES WHICH ARE RATED AT THE SAME
AFTM# AS YOUR ROD WILL NOT MATCH AT ALL!!!!
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Must be a European problem. All my fly rods match up just fine
with the flylines of the same weight.

Note to newbies: I would take Mr. Connor's "articles" with a
large measure of salt, anybody who tells you to cast a 6wt or
heavier line on your 3wt has got a screw loose.

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The actual weight of a line is important, not the AFTM #. The weight
is a factor of the length, and the line size. So in point of fact, you
can cast 90 feet of DT#3 line on a #3 weight, which weighs 300 grains,
or you can just as easily cast 30 feet of #10 weight, which weighs 280
grains.

Like I said, a screw loose and mad as a hatter too.

Your fly fishing pronouncements remind me of nothing more than
the bombast the late George Gehrke used to pitch here. No harm,
no foul I guess, so long as no one actually believes your silly
"theories". I'm tempted to ask why on earth the AFTMA would
deliberately mislead the fly fishing public about line weights
leaving the one and only truth to be discovered and taught to
us mere mortals by the great Mike Connor but I'm afraid you might
actually try to answer. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry