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When you hook up with spring kings in skinny water they often blast right out of the water, so you know what you're dealing with. No matter what they do, on our boat, we clear the rods and just fight that fish.

Must admit I do not use a leader (don't like swivels or extra knots) and some of these rods are spooled with 6 lb maxi and have only size 27 reels(I have been spooled on those rigs before and try not to run them on LO but there are times when I pull them down from the arch cuz they have a stick all tied on and I've got a break off on another. We usually run 4 rods /side + 1 down the chute. Not sure they make the Starfire 401 1 piece rod anymore- mine are probably 10 years old.

Carefully. We run 8lb maxigreen on fully spooled Daiwa 47 lc reels. The rod is the key! We use eagle Claw 8' lights -very, very flexible rod. Have handled numerous spring kings on these setups. you can't be in a hurry and you need to be on your toes! I usually cut off a rod length of line each time I start out fishing.

The lls can be anywhere in the water column. Do yourself a favor and run baits at different depths. If you don't have riggers run core off inlines and slide divers inside those, run the high lines outside the cores. On any given day I've gotten em on everything from trolling flies on top to DW ss spoons down 55'. It's been an ugli winter so far and very few days have been what I would call fishable, should start to see a few good days before too long here.

I predator hunt at night with a kill light so I feel comfortable saying these guys were: a.) shooting before confirming their target and b.) shooting well past the limit of their light and their ability Predator hunting at night requires really sound judgment with respect to confirming the target- it is a whole different ball game from deer hunting. Unfortunately these kinds of incidents are on the upswing right now with the increased popularity of predator hunting. I was listening to a 'security guard' telling a story of how he shot a coyote the night before at 200 yds in the dark with a kill light. Now it doesn't matter that he was most likely FOS (full of sh#t) , the problem is that people are thinking this sounds like a cool, American Sniper fantasy that they can act out in their neighbor's back 40.

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