[yawningotter]

I fish 2 pound line and sometimes hook some 5 to 10 pound buglemouth bass that take a long time to land. If you are not used to catching bigguns on light line, you will tend to be too careful, but once you get the feel for fighting the fish using the rod, you can cut the fighting time.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yep. When the bass aren’t hitting, I break out the 8 ft light action fly rod. I keep a 5 lb leader around 6 ft long on the fly line which is 50 lb test. Have caught many large fish and pumpkin seed bream that way.

[Iscool]

I fish 2 pound line and sometimes hook some 5 to 10 pound buglemouth bass that take a long time to land. If you are not used to catching bigguns on light line, you will tend to be too careful, but once you get the feel for fighting the fish using the rod, you can cut the fighting time.

Reeled in a 6 lb. smallmouth on a 4 wt. flyrod with a 2 lb leader...I fooled with him for over 20 min...Was afraid of breaking the leader but I got 'im...