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Originally Posted by SkunkBoat
Reel numbers can be confusing. Shimano TLDs are sized in kilograms not pounds so a TLD15 is a 32# sized reel. To make it more confusing, they sized the 2 Speed TLD50 in pounds not kg because people were confused when comparing to a Penn International.
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Interesting. I saw in your first post that you labeled the TDL 15 as ~30#. I assumed that they were just doubling it for some reason but I got the connection. I never considered that it would be metric but I guess why not?
So I was looking at rods a bunch online today and the Shimano's were too expensive and the Amia was only $60 and only specified 'premium' guides. I was liking the Star and Tsunamis. Star in particular had a ton of options but was confused about some terminology.
I have a Charter Special on a beater rod and assumed that going forward I would be using that for jigging etc. That left this rod for mostly being trolled in a rod holder and then me pulling it out of the rod holder and fighting the fish while standing up. So, given that, what is the distinction between 'boat' rods (which I assume to be 'standard' trolling rods) and 'standup' rods. I liked that the standups mostly had slick butts and longer foregrips which seems to make sense for my use case but it seemed that they were all short, more expensive and fewer choices. Are they that specialized and/or somehow inappropriate for what I'm trying to accomplish? It seems that standing up would be the typical/popular configuration...
Thanks as always !