i was just wondering if anyone has ever tried putting say a 10 weight floating line on say a 6 weight rod?

if so what were the results?

obviously you aint supposed to do this but could it be a laugh if it was tried and/or could the line be cast even further due to its heavier weight?

looking forward to reading the replies
peace
rusty

A few weeks ago I was chatting to one of our members who was extolling the virtues of his new sharkskin lines. He then insisted I tried casting with his fly rod. I commented straight away that the line was too heavy for the rod.

After checking his tackle bag he realised that he'd put his #8 line on his #6 rod!

The point I'm making is that he'd been fishing for a couple of hours and hadn't even noticed the difference - I wonder though if overloading the rod with too heavy a line might damage it?

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I've read a bit on here about going up a weight to get more distance etc, but there must be a point at which the rod could be "overloaded" to the point where it becomes inefficient, and maybe even useless?
As for damage, I wouldn't know.
Have fun.

Cheers,
Gary.

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you can slightly overline a rod to load it faster and with less line out. it can help in getting a decent line out in minimum time.

To put a 10 weight on a 6 rod would massively overline it, and if you put any decent strain into the cast, i'd say you'd run a good chance of breaking the rod.

Only real danger is of your line landing on the water with all the grace of Bernard Manning belly flopping.

Going up one or poss two AFTM rating will make the rod seem a slower action and may help get more distance at the cost of presentation and 'balance'.

Try it yourself and let us all know the outcome ie how many pieces your rod was before and how many after.

Paul

Tried it, don't see point personally.

That would be a site, might be graceful to some eyes (?) - nice av by the way, just booked tickets to Oktoberfest or something?

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Each 6' of line approximately equals an AFTM size so if 8 yards of #7 on your #6 rod would equal the 10 yards it is rated at, so 2 yards of #10 line would provide the same loading. If you want to load your rod with just 2 yards of line then in theory that could be the way forward. In practice a good #6 rod with a middle to tip action would cast with 2 yards of #6 line. Whilst I've never tried a line 4 sizes to heavy on a rod I would expect it would be completely overloaded and wouldn't be surprised if you broke the tip when tempted to cast to a fish much beyond your 2 yard + leader distance!

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An overloaded rod would tend to break in the area just above the handle rather than the tip. I wouldn't recommend anyone trying going up 4 sizes on any rod especially if you're going to try an aerialise the same amount of line.

Not quite but there was a bit of an Oktoberfest my way last Sunday