Well Grandpa beat me to it. Don't knock electric reels until you have tried them. Reeling up dogfish is a pain. I just bought my first electric reel after many years of hand cranking. The last two years I have used a friends Fishing NG reels. There is still sport to it as you still have to pump the rod. Its not like it is a winch. The great part about them is you can fish deeper waters. I have hand reeled up 50 pound halibut from 650+ feet like everyone else. We are not the ones wiping out the fish. Watch the big mother processor ship out at Neah Bay with the three smaller ships feeding it on a daily basis and tell me a couple of hooks and lines per boat are wiping out our fish. Have you ever seen them open up the gates and dump the bycatch? Its discusting and never gets easier. In fact I get madder everytime I see it. We ran through thousands of sable cod floating on the surface a couple of years ago. The ones that weren't dead were belly up dying. I am sure that the tribes beat us to it before it opens. The reason they shrimp before us is because they beat BC to the market. I am sure it is the same with halibut. Tr