Do you hold your rod or spike it? If you hold the rod, flipping the bail when you feel a pick-up and feathering it with your fingers is one way to go. But if you spike it, you have to loosen the drag, then reset it as a fish is running off line. Better to go with a baitrunner reel. The Penn baitrunners are a little small if you chunk with mono. I'd go with a Shimano BTR-4500 or 6500. The regular BTR reels are good enough, no need to spend big bucks on the heavier Thunnus models.
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