O.K. Bruce, here we go!

I side with Travis. There isn't anything in fresh water that fights harder than the saltwater pelagic species.

Stripers or HSB DO fight hard, but I think any pelagic species will pull them backwards, if the fish are the same size. Well, maybe not Dorado.....

While BG have a good initial fight, they lack stamina.

I've never had a freshwater fish swim so fast that a rooster tail came off the water on both sides of the line - the line was zipping thru the water that fast. Wahoo

If I didn't use 50# test, I'd get continually rocked by 12#-18# fish - Yellowtail

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