So here's my Salmon Story.....Fishing the Seahawk out of Santa Barbara I hook up on a nice fish and the Capt. "Merit" reaches over my arm and loosens my drag.....I fish with these rods every week so I think I know what I'm doing!....Well this particular reel is really touchy and I clamped my thumb down on the mono while the fish screamed up the stearn and I cannot print the stream of obsenities that I hurled over my shoulder only to hear him tell the deck hands not to help me out ever as I'M A Pro and wait for color before they go near me and yada yada yada......Long story short out of 14 salmon mooched that day I had 11 and was passing them to everbody .....The deckhands all wanted my Loomis by the end of the trip and I hope I helped to bury that Bast**d as I see he sold the boat and got out of the business. Of course now we only have 1 boat in Santa Barbara and all Jason appears to be doing is ferrying chuckleheads to the 1 mile 3 times a day so he can knock out a buck...Don't get me wrong I love Jason...Great guy who will help you out bigtime he's just doing what he has to so that he can scratch out a living doing what he loves....I'm just not into it!