Hey Keith.. I'm actually fishing a lami 1324-t 9' medium 8-12... While I think the rod should be rated higher, just a personal opinion for how much backbone it has, I have been fishing 15#... STuff used to work fine for me, but I really think there might be a slight decrease in line quality these days.. Less strict quality control maybe? Extruders being put into overtime for production? Quantity vs. quality? Line really isn't much more expensive these days as it was 10 years ago, and when you have labor costs, material costs, everything under the sun rising, and a product stays the same rough price, the sacrifice has to be somewhere?! I know I work in the carpet industry and carpet prices aren't that much higher than they were 15 years ago, hence why carpets don't quite last as long as that 30 year old carpet in your gramma's house =) These are just a few reasonings that go through my mind on a daily basis.. =) Though, I could be way off =)

Tom