centerpin is about the most direct fight you can get with the fish. You have no drag other than what you put on the reel with your fingers for drag. You also get the perfect drag-free drift.
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We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a riverkeeper, a steward of marine shallows... We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. Tom Mcguane