[ProfessorM]

Well I caught the first 2, so called monsters, I hate that word monster, I ever hooked on back to back nites. I really never gave it a premeditated thought as to how I would ever fight a fish like that and certainly didn't have time to think about while it was happening. I was a novice for sure at the time, still could be . I guess luck was on my side and has to have something to do with it. I did do a better job on the second nite as I kind of knew what to expect but still nerve wracking. A lot of things can go wrong and none did so I was lucky. I will say i lost a very large fish while trolling T&W about 5 years ago. I lost that due to not having enough patience for the fish to exhaust itself and just pulled too hard as I was sick of waiting. I will never do that again. Worse thing is I saw the bugger several times. Wish I hadn't. Nothing better than the adrenaline rush of knowing you have something good on the line that you may not be able to touch.