Slinging pencil Poppers at Mussel Rock waching a bait ball form I tied into this lineside 41 inch's and 25 pounds of furry I though I had a bird until he started stripping line off my Penn 850ss he had me looking at the tip of my 13' Kencor I had to give up some drag to keep him from straighting out my trebble hook on my red/white pencil popper it took 20 min to land this hog.