I don't set my drag anymore unless I'm fishing during the spawn 3-4ft deep at Poverty or Grenada. And this is only bc of the occasional aggressive fish that hyper-extends your line before you can blink, surfaces and pulls off when spider rigging this shallow. I've just found that when fishing deeper than that the fish has started running with it 9 times out of 10 by the time you get to it to set the hook and they create enough slack on their own for a nice hook set. Several years ago I changed to spider rigging with 1 ball bearing baitcast reels and you can basically man handle anything that bites without having the thought of a good fish stripping the gears out on a hook set. Handles 2LB + fish nicely. I bring up this sort of reel because when setting the hook, I grab around the reel to do so. This puts my thumb near the line release button and in case I need it, I've already hooked up with the fish and can let my thumb give it as much line as it needs based on that situation. Has worked well for me. So I guess in my opinion there's no sweet spot in the drag settings because every fish is different.