Re Trolling TAper - Claude Freaner

At 6:00 PM +0000 , 1/28/01, SteVe Cook wrote about Trolling TAper
>     The following is from a old French angling book and was photo 
>copied and translated by  non-angler. The numbers are probably OK , 
>but I don't know about the description.
>      It is described as suitable for dragging attracters behind a 
>boat or throwing them at the water. It has a powerful curve suitable 
>for great Pike, Salmons and Zander, it will even work in the 
>sea.(sic)
>It is 3m long with a 700mm butt of turned wood,  it appears to be a 
>3 piece (2 sections and detachable butt).
>
>Dimensions in millimetres
>
>0000     4.4
>0100     5.1
>0200     5.7
>0300     6.3
>0400     7.0
>0500     7.6
>0600     8.2
>0700     8.8
>0800     9.5
>0900     10.1
>1000     10.7
>1100     11.4
>1200     12.0
>1300     12.6
>1400     13.2
>1500     13.9
>1600     14.5
>1700     15.1
>1800     15.8
>1900     16.4
>2000     17.0
>2100     17.6
>2200     18.3
>2300     18.9
>

For what it's worth, here's the taper converted to inches, and then 
interpolated to 5 inch stations.

Taper as given:	   Converted to inches:			    5 Inch Station:
mm	mm	mm/mm		inches	inches   in/in	        inches	inches
0	4.4	-        	0.0000	0.1732	0.0000		0	0.1732
100	5.1	0.0070		3.9370	0.2008	0.0070
200	5.7	0.0060		7.8740	0.2244	0.0060		5	0.2072
300	6.3	0.0060		11.8110	0.2480	0.0060		10	0.2372
400	7	0.0070		15.7480	0.2756	0.0070		15	0.2704
500	7.6	0.0060		19.6850	0.2992	0.0060
600	8.2	0.0060		23.6220	0.3228	0.0060		20	0.3011
700	8.8	0.0060		27.5591	0.3465	0.0060		25	0.3311
800	9.5	0.0070		31.4961	0.3740	0.0070		30	0.3635
900	10.1	0.0060		35.4331	0.3976	0.0060		35	0.3950
1000	10.7	0.0060		39.3701	0.4213	0.0060
1100	11.4	0.0070		43.3071	0.4488	0.0070		40	0.4257
1200	12	0.0060		47.2441	0.4724	0.0060		45	0.4590
1300	12.6	0.0060		51.1811	0.4961	0.0060		50	0.4890
1400	13.2	0.0060		55.1181	0.5197	0.0060		55	0.5190
1500	13.9	0.0070		59.0551	0.5472	0.0070
1600	14.5	0.0060		62.9921	0.5709	0.0060		60	0.5529
1700	15.1	0.0060		66.9291	0.5945	0.0060		65	0.5829
1800	15.8	0.0070		70.8661	0.6220	0.0070		70	0.6160
1900	16.4	0.0060		74.8031	0.6457	0.0060
2000	17	0.0060		78.7402	0.6693	0.0060		75	0.6469
2100	17.6	0.0060		82.6772	0.6929	0.0060		80	0.6769
2200	18.3	0.0070		86.6142	0.7205	0.0070		85	0.7092
2300	18.9	0.0060		90.5512	0.7441	0.0060		90	0.7408
											90.5512	0.7441

I have this on an Excel spreadsheet if anyone wants to see it that 
way.  Let me know and I'll send it to you as an attachment via 
private email.

Claude