Cutty fish are strong

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Uh, I don't know Bruce. I have felt the drag setting you use on the canal, it's the same one the tugboats use to tow barges!

A lighter setting in your book could still tow my fat ass in no problem!

I dunno--the last time I fished with him, I heard the drag clicker going once or twice.

Last time I had a PM from Powers, he told me he had a fish that ripped of f 50 yards from a "meduim" drag setting. I wonder what Jimmy calls, "medium"?

Have you taken the spring out of that thing yet, Slip?

[jettyjockey18]

powers uses 2 drag settings...off and ws (welded shut)...

[libassboy]

I think the 6x may help, but ive seen them open up too, ive never once seen one closed like that pic tho, probably a rock.
Sometimes you just find that fish pull really hard, i dont know if its the bait there on, or the enviorment there in, i went thru like 10 sets of vmc's on a bomber one nite three or four seasons ago, those fish were just going beserk and pulling really hard, not too big either maybe 20lbs.