Tyler,

We were fishing the kelp rafts in open water for yellowtail using live sardines with no weight. I spooled out a lot of line and it tightened up hard. I set the hook thinking it was a yellowtail, but it was just dead weight. Turns out the sardine must have swam right next to the thing and got loose, and I ended up hooking the sunfish right below the jaw. It fought like a bag of cement, and we motored right up to it on the surface and cut the leader.