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Old 10-11-2008, 08:43 AM
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Default Weights-n-Measures.

This one will drive an avid browser of catalogues - totally freakin' bananas.

There is no universally used standard for weights on rods and reels - no, not atfma line weight ratings, nor yet matching rod and reel ratings - simple physical weights.


GLA in Ounces and Decimal Parts Thereof


IC3 Grams

Sage Ounces and binary fractions thereof.


Danica Weightless


All from the same catalogue - Others have no need to look smug.

Now I know that nobody buys two pounds of Sage and quarter of Hardy but....
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