You dont want to kill the eel, but you want to diminish its energy, otherwise it can ball up around your leader and create a tangled mess
Next, Ill fish a Bagleys Pro Sunny B Squarebill balsa wood crankbait in a B1 or a B2 size
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But I never felt any sort of start-up inertia on any of the runs, leading me to believe that if I had to really scale down for a finesse presentation the reel would protect light lines
Like new, never pulled on a fish