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As most of you know, I have fished Bass for over 50 years and I still remember the "Big one's that got away" and cannot begin to remember all the smaller one's that didn't get away.
Eben, all good advice for you. Don't mess with that drag, keep your rod tip up and use every advantage you can to bring her into the shallow water. She may make two or more runs but each one should be shorter as she tires out. Keep you rod tip up and a bend in the rod and she will eventually come to you. Just don't let her sulk out there and dive deep. That is when she can go into the rocks and really do some hook damage.
Remember: That fifty or better pound fish didn't get to be that size by being stupid. By the time they get that size they know a lot of tricks.
Who ever it was that said about the smaller than fifty's fighting better knows their stuff. Give me those 25 to 30 pound Green Headed Spring fish that just got here and are hungry. They smack that bait like they are pissed at the world and fight every second they are hooked. One, two, three sometimes even four runs before they come along side.
Granted, the big fish brings more glory but the small ones fight better!
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