Need some clarification on boo #'s

From: "Wayne Knight"

All that HCH
and HDH is for you old timers anyway, all I ever known is wf and dt ;-) I
think the poster who suggested trying it had it right.

Absolutely. The disagreement in the various charts points out that the
conversion from letter to number is somewhat of an approximation. IIRC, the
letter system was based on diameters, while the number system is based on
weight.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

In George Adams wrote:
Absolutely. The disagreement in the various charts points out
that the conversion from letter to number is somewhat of an
approximation. IIRC, the letter system was based on diameters,
while the number system is based on weight.

Yup, and to further muddy things, the letter system
was based on diametre of *silk* lines, so any conversion
to the modern system is at *best* an approximation. :-)

From what I know of 'boo rods, there's a fair bit of
leeway as far as which line size works best for *you*.
Indeed, I've seen people disagree +/- a line wt. w.r.t.
the line *they* thought worked best. The conversion
gives you a ballpark number, but you pretty well *have*
to experiment a bit to see what really suits the rod.

Todd (remove hook to reply)