Fished for just a little more then an hour and caught 1 king and lost another(7 year olds doing all the fighting). both fish came out of a 100 yard circle on back to back passes, just like the book says it should be. It took Sydney and Hannah a while to wrestle this fish to the boat. but the advantage of fighting a fish for a while is there are no rod snatching/breaking runs at the end....DJ