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>Fishing the American River at a nice spot I've found
>Casting and retrieving a zoom tiny fluke on a 1/16 oz jighead, 4lb mono leader and 10lb braid mainline
>Using a 7ft 6" ultralight rod, at this spot I mostly get smallmouth bass under a pound.
>Reel reel twitch reel reel... Bite?
>Set the hook and feel resistance
>Here's where it gets interesting. My rod bends sown and I hear my drag buzz. I've had fish run before, but this run lasts AT LEAST 10 full seconds.
>The run stops, and after a few cranks of the reel, the fish goes on a smaller, secondary run that lasts a second or two.
>The fish stops pulling, and I settle into the pull-and-reel-slack routine
>Have to be careful not to overstress the line. Since it is a 4lb leader only 2ft long, attached to braid, I don't get the advantage of having the stretch factor of mono mainline.
>Several minutes later, the fish comes close enough to the surface for me to see it.