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I was casting & retrieving live eels with 30# Fireline and a 5/0 circle hook on a Penn Squidder down off the Elizabeth's last weekend. Got kind of casual after a while and had a striper (I guess) slam the eel so hard it jarred the rod out of my hands. Didn't hook him but never had a hit as hard as that one before...never had a chance to give him line, set the hook or do much of anything and I wonder if that's just the nature of things fishing w/ a braid. If so, I guess they either hook themselves or they don't get hooked...no way I had any time to react.
(The eel looked like it had been pounded half a dozen times by a ball peen hammer<g>)
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