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Gerry

Here is a tip i learned years ago when Capt Fred (Andreas Toy) trailered his boat to the keys to do some fishing out of Islamorada. We can right a book on that experience as it was quite the road trip.

Our first day out we got schooled as our northeast techniques and rigging methods did not work so well on the sailfish. Had my friend Capt Bobby Maino who is a long time resident hook us up with Capt Curt the next day to run our boat and show us how it is done down there. As for drag adjustment one of the tips we learned was to use a small piece of rubber coated telephone wire that we would wrapp around foregrip of rod and then attatch to the line while keeping reel in free spool. This kept the line from running of the reel and allowed fish to pick up the bait without feeling the resistence of the drag. Works beeter on spiining gear put can be adapted to level drag reels as i tried it out when i got back to jersey.

Caught alot fish after listening to the locals as well as other things. There were no digitals cameras back then as all my pictures are in an album. Will need to get digatal copies one day and postl