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We live in a time when there are abundant spey line choices available to us. Just a reminder to everyone of something that I reminded myself of tonite ... be careful to believe what's written on a box.
Lots of us here obsess about grain weights of lines. Charts, splices, tapers, etc. So tonite I brought home the portable lab balance, calibrated it, and weighed some lines and tips.
Several tips marked 9 wt and 11 wt were really 10 wts. ok, not a big deal, unless like me you upline your sink tips by one weight already, in which case you might be uplining by 2 weights without knowing it.
Full floater speys were generally only slightly off published specs in weight (20-40 grains out of 500-800 ... < 5% error) though often shorter than advertised by 3-8'.
One line was completely mislabled - weights and diameters matched the next size up.
There was no real pattern to any of this. The lesson for me is that obsessing about which line to buy based on published specs is probably not a good idea. I look forward to Sean's line exchange program for hands-on reality checks.
Lots of us here obsess about grain weights of lines. Charts, splices, tapers, etc. So tonite I brought home the portable lab balance, calibrated it, and weighed some lines and tips.
Several tips marked 9 wt and 11 wt were really 10 wts. ok, not a big deal, unless like me you upline your sink tips by one weight already, in which case you might be uplining by 2 weights without knowing it.
Full floater speys were generally only slightly off published specs in weight (20-40 grains out of 500-800 ... < 5% error) though often shorter than advertised by 3-8'.
One line was completely mislabled - weights and diameters matched the next size up.
There was no real pattern to any of this. The lesson for me is that obsessing about which line to buy based on published specs is probably not a good idea. I look forward to Sean's line exchange program for hands-on reality checks.