On 6 Dec, 03:50, daytripper wrote:

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

Indeed, that is basically correct.

( Although quite a lot of lines no longer conform to the standard
either now).

TL
MC