Planning a fishing course / Strip strike v. Scissors strike

I found Ally's, "PLANNING A FISHING COURSE" attachment in the deep dark recesses of my hard drive.

Go through it as a power point presentation and then go back and read his related message.

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I'd LOVE to hear your tarpon stories, with ALL the details you could remember. The point about waiting an agonizingly long time before striking, to the point that the critter is swimming away and putting a bend in the rod -- that explains why I've missed the hookset on every poon I've ever enticed (admittedly very few in total). The one baby that I did actually catch had actually eaten the fly and my line started going sideways following the fish before I realized he had it in his mouth. It was under 20 lbs, and I did a strip strike with some sweep and hooked up. Probably would not have been effective on a larger fish.

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