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Obviously, live-linning bait is one of the most productive methods of fishing. If you are going to employ that, you'll need suitable gear to do so. If you happen to be live-lining mackeral in Boston Harbor on a boat, you don't need super heavy gear, just sufficient gear suitable to fish the style at hand. If you are live-lining a fish that is working the shadow lines amongst a lot of pier pylons, you need to gear way up so I can see where a lot of people would use HD gear for something like that... The say "match the hatch" when fishing, they should also say use appropriate gear to the task at hand.
Those fish certainly have a decent chance inside those pylons.
Twenty pound Mono plus a 50# leader is often good enough for fishing from the rocky surf (maybe even on the low side) but would you spool your real with 8#?
Just try to match suitable gear to the methods you are using. It adds to your success and allows you to get a fish turned quicker...
I agree with about 2/3rds of what Mr K says about "Light Tackle" fishing on bigger fish, consider this:
If you are going to go after any fish, regardless of size, you are going to want to have the appropriate gear, right? If you go in with substandard gear, bad line, and cranky reels, not only are you going to miss fish, you'll lose some too. Not too god for the fish. Make sure your gear is appropriate or as close too as you can and certainly make sure it's in good mechanical order.
Now, if your fishing where odds are increased on your getting a fish of a lifetime, wouldn't you want suitable gear for this? Would you consistantly toss a skinny eel on a 7' pole with 10 pound test at Watch Hill when a 40# bass or an 18# blue runs through? Not likely.
I'd love to use a small, superlight rod chasing mid sized school bass but more important to me is getting them in and turned around quick.
Use good conditioned, decent quality gear with properly maintaned reels and fresh line. You'll eliminate a lot of danger to you, to the fish, and you'll get them in quick and turned around safer and faster if that's what you chose to do.
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