Break offs like that are just the nature of the beast with the tools you willingly chose (ie, UL rod and light line in a big fish fishery with heavy cover). Yea, it's a lotta fun fighting bigger fish on light tackle but going into the game you have to immediately figure the percentage of lost fish will be higher. You just have to put it in your mind that you'll eventually set into a fish that can't be turned and the limits of what your gear will do have been reached!

I think I've seen your name in the BNT tourney roll calls--do you use the same UL gear for the Delta events? If you're fishing for money or point standings I think that'd be very nerve wracking!

Great fish pics by the way, and as I said earlier, those fish must've been pretty fun on UL gear!