Quote Originally Posted by yobuck View Post
Glad you inserted that pound for pound part Ketchin. lol
it is relative you know , ladyfish for their size are stupid big air pups ...
now mind you this , lb. for lb. nothing touches a sockeye salmon ...
some large fish pull real hard and them jacks in the short water are bullies ....
but sockeyes / reds are in a league of their own.
the power and big air at the same time and flat out ridiculous speeds they hit quickly ...
with what seems almost as an endless steam to get away ....
make it well known as combat fishin in Alaska ....
good stuff up that way , the sockeye runs are just terribly hardcore angling
them fish destroy tackle and anglers pretty often ...seen it myself more than once ...
medium heavy 7 foot one pc . ugly stik with 17 lb. test on a penn open faced was my weapon of choice and still is ....
might think about heavier line though , I was sort of playing with them mostly