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Yup, medium to fast on the retreive, I like to vary on the speed. It was a good night/morning for rubba. Black until just after false dawn then switched to bubblegum. Had something happen around 3 am that keeps playing over and over in my mind. This happened using a surf hog. Got the hit, set the hook and was never able to put the brakes to her. She ran strong and hard, sounded into the rocks and swam around one that cinched up the line tight, felt a big tug and then nothing. She was hooked on the back (trailing) hook and snapped the doubled 50# braid like nothing. I rigged these myself. I have done many and have been rigging for quite a while. I thought maybe my knots had failed. It hasn't happened yet but I figured there's always a first. The hog was in great shape so I pulled out the lead hook to see if the knots came undone and the line was stripped and to my amazement all my half hitches on the lead hook going to the doubled line were solid and intact , the line was snapped in the middle between the two hooks.
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