Originally Posted by
Billy 40
It's like the Metric system - we all know it's a much better standard of measurements, but Americans are so ingrained with inches and gallons, it's just going to stay tht way and we'll be the only country using teh ass backwards method of measurements.
The problem is too many people are set in their ways and refuse to change or look at things from another perspective. The US Manufacturers, along with the vast majority of US Fishermen are used to the line rating of rods, and will always relate to rods rated for 50-80# which fishes better at the higher end of the rating, than a blank which can be fished at 28#'s of drag. HAlf the people fishing are probably incapble of properly setting their drag to 28#'s, let alone be able to select a rod based on that type of a rating.
So as a Manu you have to think - should we change the way we rate our rods to satisy teh .01% of fishermen who want the rods rated like this, or should we continue selling boatloads of rods and blanks with teh old rating system to 99.99% of the fishermen?
The other problem with this is that hte major rod Manu's in the US are located on the WEst Coast, and haven't teh faintest idea or care of what we do on this side, and even in the SOuth. So for them to know how to properly rate jigging specific rods without doing tht type of fishing, is almost impossible.
The common sense compromise is to have BOTH ratings on teh rods/blanks, as Mike stated. When I was selling the GUSA PURJ's, thats' exactly what I did, and it made everyone comfortable when tehy were deciding on whether the blank will work for them or not.
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But seriously...I imagine the lure will swim much more erratically with a light action tip than a stiffer tip. I wonder what works better for certain conditions and species. I don't have the loot to have two rods for each reel (1 lighter and 1 heavier) to vary the lure action but thats a good thing to know!
