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Patrick, I think you are fishing with your drag a bit loose if this is the case. If your peeling drag on the bite, how do maintain any control on the fish once hooked, once the fish makes some real runs? How do reel period? Palming the spool is fine on a run, but won't help when its time to gain back some line.
Your drag should not be set so light that only moderate pressure takes line or you would lose good contact with your fish.
And what do you do when the fish runs towards you, or left or right? Not all fish head straight away. You have to be able to reel hard to get hooks on 'em.
I certainly don't disagree that reeling against the drag causes mega line twist, it does... and I know that some chunkers using spinning equipment fish with a loose drag if they don't have a baitrunner, allowing the fish to run while they get to the rod, then they clamp down when the fish is hooked. Is this what you mean? If so, I'm at least following you.
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