I was at Eufaula in the dutchess creek/porum area yesterday with my grandpa. We had about seven decent crappie in the boat when a pole bender hit my rod. First two cranks and my line snapped. Ten minutes or so later, got another BIG hit on my other pole. After I finally got it up to the boat I saw it was a huge largemouth bass! As I reached down to grab it, my line snapped! Talk about bummed out!! One pole had 6lb mono and the other had 8lb. I will NEVER use anything lower than 12lb again, ever. I was thinking of trying out some PowerPro or something.