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This isn't going to be easy to follow but here goes

Originally Posted by FishnGrega

Do you drive a Prius? or an environmental hazard gas powered vehicle?
Gas guzzling 97 ford exploder

If you've fished for "35+" years you should probably have more common sense about what your talking about.
Common sense is developed over time, if that doesn't help please be more specific and I will try and make my opinion clearer.

Perhaps you should have gotten more line on your spool if your getting spooled, or tighten your drag a couple turns more...
Thats why I am now fishing so heavy. I have evolved from 30# Ande mono on a squidder=spooled (Canal maybe 30 years ago) I never had a chance, couldn't slow it down felt like I hooked a sub going through.
40# Ande mono penn 980 mag once again never slowed down (Canal maybe 20 years ago, my memory isn't too good anymore)

50# Big game mono, calcutta 700, (Canal, several times over the years) I was able to turn the fish but couldn't keep it from rubbing my line on structure/ledge and lost too many, never spooled but never felt the power of the previous spoolings.

Now I fish 60# power pro hollow ace on a saltist 6500 and a spool for my VS300 pretty confident it will handle anything I hook up with, might part due to a wind knot but hasn't been an issue and I hope it never is, time will tell

I also have 80# JB on my calcutta 700's and a spool for my VS300 which I have absolute confidence in landing anything under 150#

I feel they all have enough line to allow me to turn a striper before getting into backing no matter how large.

Still no one has said they fish with light tackle, you seem to be very confused by that still.
It was a general statement, some do some don't, are you saying you have never seen what you consider to be light tackle being used for stripers?

your still oblivious...
Looks like a question to me, isn't that what somone who is oblivious does?

I wouldn't use light tackle at the ditch
Doesn't have to be the Canal but what do you think is going to happen when a 30 pound or larger fish you have hooked gets around structure and your main line makes contact with said structure 2-5 feet above your swivel/leader?

Not speaking for DJ but this is getting a little ridiculous don't you think?
Only because my general statement about some equipment I've seen being used seems to have hit a nerve.

have you ever lost a bucktail at the ditch? If your hitting bottom with a riggie either A: speed up your retrieve, B: don't let it sink so much or C: Don't fish them in that particular area...
It was brought up in class when Dj was asked how to fish the riggie being shown, he said he would not let it make contact with the bottom because the hooks where facing down and it would get hung up. I don't have this issue because I have experience fishing different gear in different areas and seldom hang up unless I'm unfamiliar with the area and not paying attention.

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please re-phrase this mess your trying to speak of so I can understand it better... I'm sure I'm not the only one who can't make head or tales of what the hell your talking about...

It's a suggestion so you can disregard it, explanation not necessary. Some thing have to be learned, experience will give you the ability to decipher what I'm saying, not all tips are given away freely where anyone can read them. The internet has given many a sense of accomplishment which they haven't earned due to the ability to just read what to do without paying any dues or using their mind to discover why or how things work

Don't worry someone who I have rubbed the wrong way will post what they think I meant.

I should be fishing not posting