You've gotta love this stuff ..... I remember going along to the Sexyloops gathering in Dunkeld ten years ago ( with Hamish & Sandy ) and our old IM6 & cane rods and DT lines caused a bit of hilarity. Apparently we needed to get with it and get ourselves a Sage within specific serial numbers and an MED
A few folk 'played' with these and I specifically remember both Mike Heritage and Lasse Karlsson casting the DT line well into the backing with Sandy's cane rod.
A few interesting comments about line weights and designs in this and other threads recently Paul, but you've got to remember that fly fishing lines are not made like machined metal products on CNC machines ...... liquid plastic, gravity fed onto a moving piece of string is not in the same league
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Mike
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Re: Fly line selection
Great post MikeBarrio wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:52 pm A few interesting comments about line weights and designs in this and other threads recently Paul, but you've got to remember that fly fishing lines are not made like machined metal products on CNC machines ...... liquid plastic, gravity fed onto a moving piece of string is not in the same league
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Re: Fly line selection
Indeed Mike and that’s why there are tolerances. Most lines appear to be way heavier than the tolerances. In fact quite a few are 1-3 WTs heavier! I don’t think that’s a manufacturing error. If it is then the machines have gotten worse over the years because the lines have become heavier! I have plenty of lines that are true to weight and certainly within tolerances.
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Re: Fly line selection
Of course its not a manufacturing error, it's made on purpose since AFFTA is dead, so we say we invented something much better, but same...
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