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PE Rating of Rods

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Tak Otsuka:
Hi Brad

It is best to keep it as PE x 10 = lb. That is how most of Japanese manufactures still work and you can safely work out max drag around 30-35% of it if there is no drag rating written on rod (depending on rod taper, line system etc...).

Breaking strength has been improved a lot on latest PE lines but it is when straight line and doesn't mean how they break on guides or roller are equally improved compare to previous generation's.

Cheers,
Tak

braddrew:
Thanks Guys,


That's exactly the sort of information I was after :) I completely agree that drag rating (and the corresponding rod angle for the drag rating) is a great way to rate a rod - much more objective than the "30lb spin" type ratings.

So Tak, taking that idea, you could expect the TBL80/40 to handle around about 30lb of drag as a "normal" fighting pressure? I'm assuming as well that this would be a "90 degree" figure?

Thanks again,


Brad

Mark Gwynne:
It should be a 45 degree figure in my books. That's around the maximum angle you should put on the lifting motion before you go into 'high sticking' country. So that would be the weakest part of the stroke and all other rod angels are within that so would be capable of higher drag  :D

Brandon Khoo:
No Brad. 90 degrees is asking for a catastrophe!
I would urge people to be careful with getting too caught up with drag pressure at 45 degrees. During the course of a fight, most anglers get their rods to everything ranging from 0 - 90 degrees. They don't maintain it at 45 degree ever.

Mark Harris:
Brandon's 2nd point there is why folks might think that some max drag ratings seem conservative...... but they are not really when allowing for the parts of the fight where the rod goes a bit beyond 45 degrees.

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