BR-- ESPN is in the entertainment biz-- they play to their audience.

King-- I used to agree with you wholeheartedly on smallies, but I've caught rainbows and smallies about the same weight on consecutive casts in Lake Roosevelt, and I'm beginning to believe they're about the same. I'm leaning toward the idea that fight is more based on water temps. Catch a steelie when it's really cold (or really warm) and they dog it. Same with smallmouth in my experience. Having said that, I had what I believe was a smallie hit so hard it tripped the bail on my spinning reel AND break the lip on a #7 Shad Rap-- the only time I've had that happen.

Any more, I like 'em all, from catfish to kings.

Keith