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Maybe but probably not. Like the bumper sticker, ' happens. When Saltheart and I were fishing Cohassett a month ago, he had a fish that he worked with a very light drag in a rock garden. My drag would have been too tight and would have certainly broke off the fish as he brought it in with the hook OUTSIDE the lower jaw with a sliver of skin about 1/16th of an inch holding her on. On the other hand, a 35#plus fish probably would have the upper hand in the boulder field, at least initially...
Reasons run from the hook not finding a good place to too much pressure to the fish being smart, to just not being your day, to.... :P
What kind of hooks were you using??
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