I caught a 51" inch Striper off a sandwich beach one nite a few years ago. I was bait fishing. A newell 332 spooled with 40 pound big game. The fish took me almost to my backing. I put my thumb on the spool to slow it down and ended up with a blister on the tip of my thumb. The fish was a real racer....it only weighted 39 pounds....It looked like a wahoo with bass stripes.....It's fins were in perfect shape.....like it spent all its time in deep water and never grubbed on the bottom.....I have caught alot of stripers but never a fish like that one......

last year while shark fishing I hooked into a monster shark...that I dont think was a brown. Fish went straight out and never stopped....420 yards of 60lb power pro.....My reels was smoking, and it was hot even with my skinz gloves on. There was nothing I could do...it just ran till i ran out of line and then snap......im thinking a big bull, lemon or white...it was on a 1lb chunk of eel on a 12' bendor rated for 16oz

Ya, They come up on you so quick in those things it's scary and they power those things with honda(japanese) outboards. U.S. Naval vessels powered by motors from the land of the rising sun.......Even today...... That just ain't right.......

Yes! I got home from a fishing trip and forgot to take a pole out of the rod holder at the ramp, the line got stuck on a low branch and all the line ran out. I live a couple of blocks from the ramp so I could the line down the road. Sooooo I popped a cold one, got a stick and started a walkin and a wrappin, I was spooled!--LOUIE

It looks like a bunch of fell victim to those trees that eat fishing line and kites! I was spooled by one also. Just got to remember to take the poles out of the hoders!----LOUIE