Hello Everyone!
I have to say that on my mind that Neil´s chart looks good.
There is no line weights - thats good, beacuse as we have seen now everyone wants to cast different weight heads even we use same rods.
This is why the Neils chart looks good, it gives people clue what type of line You should get if You like to use heavy or light line and he does´t say this is the line you should use.
Norwegian You said: "There is a huge problem that weights are not standardised, as is seen clearly here. Generally, some line brands tend to vary in weight, others are either too light or too heavy!! My experience is that Hardy generally are too light, while Guideline (which do not want to provide weights at all as is seen in table!) are often a bit too heavy. "
Guideline heads -too heavy? It all depends how You use them.
We like to customise our lines here in Scandinavia ( as You know

) and this is the only way you can do it. I would never byu shooting head that would be so called ready to use. Why? Cause there is so many differet situations where You have to use maybe longer or shorter haed, situations vary.
And as You said Yourself 13´ GLX is working well whit over 30g head - holy s...t :Eyecrazy: man! I have never used that heavy line on 8/9 rod, that is one soft rod and would actually "collapse" when using the underhand. Collapsing I mean that the rod would cast only on midpart of the blank when bending back when loaded down.
I have used in 8/9 rods always 26-27 gram heads, no matter what rod - if its real 8/9´ :smokin:
The rods working whit 32-34 gram heads are called 9/10 rods. Normally.
here is my list of rod weights and line weights ( remember this is only my way )
8-9 rods generally 12´6 26-28 grams ( Guideline 9/10 line cut down to 10,8m )
9-10 rods 33 - 35 grams ( Guideline head cut from 10/11 to 11,0m )
10-11 rods 39-42 grams ( Guideline head cut from 11/12 to 11,2m )
Thse are line lenght when using shooting heads in "normal condition" and flaoting to int/sink2 type heads.
You can still use on 15´ 10/11 rod Guideline head that is 10/11 but it has to be 12,5 meters long ( the weight is still 39-42 grams )
And... that this would not be too easy, the sinking lines is another story
TK