What he said- "It depends" And I've found that my opinion of what line goes on one these old rods and the opinion of others (often including whoever rated them for the factory) are not always the same. Any "new to me" rod I simply disregard the labeled rating and start with a DT6, then adjust. After all there never has been any accepted method or standard of rating rods. Some expert casts a prototype and says "I really like this rod with an "XY" weight line, but I think a poor caster could get this rod to work with a "XX" wt line so they put "XX" on the label" I've owned rods that I went a line weight or two to like the rod and I've owned rods that I went down a line weight or two, but most rods will handle at least three different line weights well enough. And it may not matter. As we extend line past the end of taper mark about every 4-5' of line increases the line mass in use by another line weight, so that carrying 60' of #5 line is about the same rod load as carrying 30' of #10 line. And none of my lines load the rod as much as a 3# bass.
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