Ever been spooled?

[robc22]

I caught a 51" inch Striper off a sandwich beach one nite a few years ago. I was bait fishing. A newell 332 spooled with 40 pound big game. The fish took me almost to my backing. I put my thumb on the spool to slow it down and ended up with a blister on the tip of my thumb. The fish was a real racer....it only weighted 39 pounds....It looked like a wahoo with bass stripes.....It's fins were in perfect shape.....like it spent all its time in deep water and never grubbed on the bottom.....I have caught alot of stripers but never a fish like that one......

[RoyL]

last year while shark fishing I hooked into a monster shark...that I dont think was a brown. Fish went straight out and never stopped....420 yards of 60lb power pro.....My reels was smoking, and it was hot even with my skinz gloves on. There was nothing I could do...it just ran till i ran out of line and then snap......im thinking a big bull, lemon or white...it was on a 1lb chunk of eel on a 12' bendor rated for 16oz