"Willi & Sue" wrote in message
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JR wrote:
Bill Kiene wrote:

About 90% of all 2 weight rods would work better with a 3 weight line.


In other words, a fair number of 3-weight rods are mislabeled as
2-weights. Golly. The "industry" better get on the ball and mislabel
more 3-weight lines as 2-weight, or the suck..., uh, customers are going
to start thinking they're being had...

JR




As a consumer I think the pattern of not following the standards that have
been accepted for a long time, sucks. With flylines, this is getting to
be
somewhat commonplace. For example, some lines sold as 5 weights are
not 5 weights based on the standard. Maybe this is starting with rods too.

It seems ironic, based on what PC reported: spey casters are trying to
establish a standard to make things less confusing, the "regular" fly
gear industry is ignoring established standards and things are getting
muddled.

Another simpler option to trying to get all the line and rod manufacturers
to agree on standards would be to write a lot of letters to the rod
manufacturers, and get them to list the recommended lines from major
manufacturers for their specific rods. Even if all the line manufacturers
agreed to standardize their weight ratings, we'd have to check the year a
line was produced to see if it was still rated the same: what Rio sold as a
5wt in 2004 might now be sold as a 6wt in 2006, even for the exact same
line. That would get even messier than the balagan we currently have.

You know, it would not be a difficult thing for a roffian to make a database
of different rods and the weight/brand of line that we use on them.
--riverman

Question: can we assume that a manufacturer who makes rods and lines (are
there any?) are internally consistent, at least? Would a brand X 5wt line
fit a brand X 5 wt rod? Can we assume the same about reels, also?