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Old 03-14-2007, 04:52 PM   #22
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For what its worth I had a close experience with being spooled but it was a very unique set of circumstances that made it happen. I was using a penn 704 with a heavy 10 foot stick. 704s don't hold a lot of line to begin with so I probably had 180 yards or so of 20 lb flourescent blue stren with about another 30 yards of 30 lb pink ande as backing.
I hit a fish on the end of a long cast with a loaded needle so I had a good amount of line out on the cast. The sweep in this particular spot was really pushing with a big sea. I hooked up and the bass took huge amounts of line - at one point I was well into my pink ande with a blood knot between me and the fish. I lucked out and landed the bass but not without some anxious moments - it was the last time I would use backing on a 704 to save some money.

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