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Originally Posted by Travis C.
Trout Mangets are the real deal. To obtain max results don't skimp on the setup. What I mean about that is don't think you can get by with 6lb line and have same results. With your drag set correctly and the right rod you can handle big fish on 2lb test.
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You are absolutely correct about that! When I first started using the TM I would do away with the 2# test and go to 4# test...then I lost a lot of casting distance and wanted that back. Then I switched to a 3# test and while I did not lose as many fish I still wanted more casting distance...so back to 2# test...LOL. I finally got the hang of fishing with 2# test and have landed Stripers as big as 10# in the current below Pickwick. Now I was not fishing for Stripers but you never know when a big fish will hit the TM. The first year I took my son to our Small Mouth spot...after he had started fishing the Trout Magnet....he fished all Spring and lost so many big Smallies...then I remember the day he finally got his first one in...a 4 pound fish. He was grinning from ear to ear. Now he gets just about all of them in. This Spring at our spot...which we only got to fish a few days because it was flooded out.....he landed 12 in one day...and these were all 4 to 5 pound fish. I think I posted his pic of the big Brown he caught on the Caney on here and it was a very heavy fish. But yes the line makes the system work. The Trout Magnet falls so slowly fish just tear it up.