Watch out, John, you may live in RI now, but you're one of those "Eastern Mass" guys, too.
Frank is like Doc Muller, who feels that you should never use anything but an 11' parabolic S-glass, and who actually stated in print that you shouldn't buy a Penn 750SS because you'll be "undergunned" with it. Undergunned with a reel that holds 250 yards of 20# mono??? Wonder if these savants realize the only two 70s ever taken from the shore were taken on even smaller reels--Mc Reynolds on a 710, Stetzko on a 550SS. Frank and Doc both spoke at the same seminar here last September, and although I passed on their talks, I was hoping they'd get into a big argument on rod length and come to blows :-)
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