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Originally Posted by Flaptail
Getting spooled by a Striped Bass means something went very wrong.
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Agreed. I've never had a bass that even came close to taking me down to the knot--not even in the Canal. It can happen, but it means you made an error in judgment to start with--fishing light tackle in an inappropriate place, fishing with too loose a drag, losing some line and not respooling or switching to a spare spool, not walking downcurrent if you have space to do so--or because of your drag failing entirely and your reel being almost in freespool as a result. You can almost always stop a bass in its tracks using the stretch and drag of 150 yards of 25# and up mono between you and the fish, and with 65# braid and the right rod, you can stop that bass from even getting up a head of steam. I've seen guys like Slip and J Powers bring 40 pounders to the rocks in the Canal in less than 5 minutes. I've done it with a bunch of 30s, even before I started fishing braid on a 1209 meatstick. Those fish took maybe 20 yards of line the whole fight.
The "unstoppable" is almost always something other than a bass. Usually a tuna.
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