Thankyou james that’s a really informative way of seeing it. If you take off that one 37.5 anomaly on the 5 wt, the trends for the different weights is really clear and the margins appear consistent.James9118 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:44 amHi WP,whinging pom wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:36 pm
Im intrigued if you can occasionally hit 138' with a 5 wt rod what actually is your margin of improvement with your competition weight rod for 5 wt??
( i know damn well you'll have analysed it to the nth degree).
These are the results from the last time I ran the rod stiffness trial with a MED #5 line - all the rods were Sage TCXs, marked as #5, #7 and #10.
TCXresults.jpg
But as Lasse would point out, at this time I had been practising with the #10 rod and MED#5 for some time.
I assume if you put in a 6wt 8+9wt you’d find plotting that upward trend would remain pretty straight and consistent ( im sure there’s a term but I don’t remember every doing graphs and statistics I was probably expelled by then).
Obviously with some bias towards your usual set up.
So where would you assume 11wt or 12wt come on that?
As Paul says those margins may not be dramatic but (and I’ve seen at the few casting events ive been to )finding an extra 30cm can be a game changer for you guys.
Where is the point that the trend collapses? Does it follow that a 9’ 12wt would push the boundaries further?
Wp