The REEL REEL REEL method is admittedly one method of avoiding slack in the line.... but OMFG... at the cost of premature burnt drags, I'm sure.

My philosophy on fighting big fish is this:

Either the fish is taking line... or the angler is. There is no in between.

And reeling against the drag is only tolerated a moment or two before someone's got a head slap comin'.
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!