What line wt is your rod? "Common Cents."

[fredaevans]

In a section of our local board I normally wouldn't check. The title of the thread is what caught my attention. The use of "Common Cents" to actually choose/match a fly line to a given rod.

p076.ezboard.com/fsouthernoregonflyfishing16217frm20.showMessage?topicID=38.topic

I'm posting the link as a few of the fellows 'chatting it up' are some of the best fly rod designer/builders going. And they seem to 'agree to disagree.'

But what they were discussing (and this is as heated as we get!) was the use of "Common Cents" to actually rate a rod for matching up to a choice of line(s).

www.common-cents.info/

All this was all brand new to me; any of you use this system?

[Silver Stoat]

Fred,

Been using it since it first appeared on www.rodbuilding.org/list.php?2

I have found it to be a very useful tool that seems to give very accurate results provided care is taken in setting up the test rig and doing the measurements.

Providing you accept the AFTM standard of 30' of line beyond the rod tip and accurately weighted lines, again to the AFTM standard, then the correlation is good.

How good it would be if used for what you might call a 'Spey' set up, might be up for debate especially given the plethora of 'special' spey tapered lines which do not necessarily relate to the AFTM standard line weights.

Dave.

[fredaevans]

Thanks Dave, and I suspect you're 'on point' vis a vis spey lines. This seemed to be the heart of Bob Meiser's comments.

Several of the Board own his rods (R. B. Meiser rods), as do we around here. His 'word' carries a lot of weight .. no bad pun intended.

Darned interesting link to the rod builders site; even the list of 'advertisers' was quite something to review. Noted Meiser was there as well as: www.siskiyouaviary.com/

Another 'local,' you have to see her feathers to believe. If you didn't know they came from real birds, you'd have trouble accepting the fact at face value.
Fred

[Robin]

What Hardys always did,as did richard walker,and me,for over 40 years,is to take the quarter circle load of a rod of known line rating ,do the same for any other rods you have,and relate these in a graph.
You can then measure any new rod you obtain and instantly you know which line you will find best on it.
It does'nt work for anyone else ,or not as well,only you.
For instance,what Hardys call a#6 is what I call a #5.
Robin