and you guys think lingcod are tough guys !!

[potbuilder]

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[JR2]

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[AK2AZ]

If you've never fished for Goliath Grouper (Jewfish) you are missing out. The fish here have no power by comparison.

[Anythingalaska]

Strange...doesn't look like Alaska to me.:think:

[AK2AZ]

Strange...doesn't look like Alaska to me.:think:

Ahhhh, come on. It is only 5,250 miles to the action!

[Abel]

If you've never fished for Goliath Grouper (Jewfish) you are missing out. The fish here have no power by comparison.

Sorry to sday, but I noticed the same thing, I think alot of it has to do with water temp too. The kings I use to fish on Lake Ontario, it was nothing to have a 25lb fish empty 300yds of 20lb off a reel, would happen not daily, but close to it. I've never even thought about having to turn on a fish becasue of that, gotta be becasue of the 60-70degree surface temps the fish ends up coming into aftet the strike. But I think the cold water makes it easier to release the fish as well, by the time kings got the boat there, they were exhausted, here, still full of piss n vinegar, probably the reason I get a face full of water eveytime I realease a Ling.