And would you break off a 28lb native steelhead on the coast if you were fighting it for that long? leave a nice long piece of leader, hook and weight handing from his mouth?fish vacuum wrote:Some people would break it off once they realized they were outgunned by a large, protected fish.
45 minutes is a long time.
by the way 45 minutes is a dramatic exaggeration. It was probably no more than 20-25 minutes