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Ken Allen
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 Posted - 04/27/2005 : 07:51:48 AM
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Scruff, back in the old days of glass, the length of a rod often determined the line weight. Folks my age can remember the era. A 7-footer would be a 5-weight, a 7 1/2-footer a 6-weight, an 8-footer a 7-weight. Nine-foot rods ranged from 8- to 10-weight and were quite heavy compared to graphite. Try casting a 7-weight on your rod, then a 6- weight and finally an 8-weight. I suspect it is 7-weight, but exceptions exist to my above rule about length.
Graphite changed all that. A nine footer can run anywhere from a 4-weight to a 12-weight.
In the glass-rod days, though, small-time rod builders (I knew one) often used the same blank for different weight rods. For a 5-weight, they might cut the top seven feet of the tip end of the blank, for a 6-weight the top 7 1/2 feet. To determine line weight, they would hang the rod on a wall on a diagram to determine weight. The would hang a lead weight on the tip and the tip would drop down to the appropriate box, telling what line weight it was. |
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