On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:37:45 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Mike wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Mike wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Total nonsense.
Unfortunately, unlike AFTM line ratings (which correspond directly to
the weight of the first 30 feet of the line), the rating of fly rods
is subjective.
It may be subjective and you may not agree with it but fly
rods are rated by the manufacturer to correspond with AFTMA
line ratings. To claim there is no rating is total nonsense.

In my experience, (Winston, Sage, T&T, Scott, Orvis, Redington,
Cabela's etc.), I have never encountered a fly rod which was
rated incorrectly. It may happen, I don't know, but I can't see
what incentive a manufacturer would have to deliberately label
a fly rod with the wrong line designation.

Ooops! Silly me........ Seems I forgot the quotation marks in my
last post, and the source; ...

Posting nonsense or quoting nonsense, what's the difference ?
It's still nonsense.

If I may be so bold....I believe what Mike is simply saying is that there
isn't any *standard* for rating a rod, while there is a standard for rating a
line.

Thus a rod "rating" is basically the result of a subjective process left to
the manufacturer to develop, while a line rating is an objective metric with
a standardized procedure to support it...

/daytripper