"Willi" wrote in message
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Peter Charles wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:47:02 +0300, Jarmo Hurri
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Good point. What we will soon need is some fanatic who will actually
weigh new lines and publish the results on a web page for
comparison. Pretty much insane - we already had the standard.

I think that my next new line will be one of the old 444's - just to
support lines with known ratings...



No sympathy from this corner -- if you think regular lines are screwed
up, you should try spey lines.

One popular West Coast light spey rod casts both a Rio Windcutter 5/6
and a Hardy Mach 1 8/9 lines with equal ease as both lines weight
about the same!!!

It's chaos . . .

That sucks! When the line makers abandon the standard, you have to buy
or try out a bunch of lines to find what's going to work for you. I'm
going to buy those lines that still rate their lines by the standard.
Hope at least some still stay that way.

Um......I don't suppose it has occurred to anyone that line standards don't
mean **** if they aren't matched to stringent rod standards? Anybody here
ever tried to cast identical rods matched with identical reels and identical
lines side by side? And, I don't suppose it has ever occurred to anyone
that line standards based on gross weight of the first thirty feet......or
whatever.....don't mean **** unless the weight is distributed EXACTLY the
same in ALL of those lines?

Here's a little experiment you can do at home:

Take two identical rods, two identical reels, and two identical lines.
Spool up the lines and attach the reels to the rods. Thread the lines
through the guides. Now, attach a small weight......say, a tiny split
shot.....to the end of one of the lines. Take an identical weight and
attach it to the other line, about fifteen feet from the end. Remember now,
the lines are identical. Thus, by attaching the two identical weights you
have in NO way changed the difference in weight between the first thirty
feet of the two lines......they are STILL identical.

O.k., now go outside and cast both rods with an identical length of line out
above the tip top. Try a whole bunch of different lengths. Here's what's
going to happen.....no matter what length of line you have out on the two
rods (assuming it is the same for both), they will NEVER cast the same.

So far, so good.

Now, get 37 five weight rods.....all of them different makes and/or models
from one another. Cast all of them with the same reel and line......pick
whatever weight line is handy.....it doesn't make a damned bit of
difference. O.k. Done? Surprised? Why? You shouldn't be.

Sophistry, it would appear, still isn't an exact science.

Wolfgang