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Figure 20. In fighting your first large fish, an apparent disadvantage may show up when you try to regain line. Because the slip-drag clutch has been set below the breaking point of the weakest knot in your line, nothing may happen when you begin turning the reel handle with the lunker on. In fact, despite your cranking, the big fish may even take more line out. That's fortunate, the slip-drag is working, guarding against overtension. (20A) In such a case, stop reeling because every turn of the handle when no line comes in puts from 3 to 4 twists into the line and will eventually break it. Instead of reeling, pump your fish in. Raise the rod tip. then lower it quickly and reel in the slack. 20B To increase your return, step back as you raise the rod and come forward as you lower it. (20B) Should you return your large fish, do not let him float into the swift current belly up. Rather support him upright in the water. Recovered, let him glide out of your hands into the deeper water. You'll feel singularly elated as he swims away to fight you again on a day when the odds won't run against him. miles an hour. Four as against twelve miles an hour makes quite a difference to the angler.
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