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My initial experience fishing for spoonbill, or paddlefish, was one of mixed emotions. I had begun to fish for spoons with the conventional gear, a surf rod, big spinning reel and thick 50lb mono line. I was having trouble casting the line great distances and I found the mono to be easily broken by a big spoon. I also missed many hook ups because of the stretch of mono. Thats when I decided I needed a new approach and I found myself checking out this new type of line called PowerPro. I was amazed at the small diameter that it presented and decided to spool up my reel with 50lb power pro. I took it out to the river and tried it out. I must say I was AMAZED! I could cast this line almost twice as far as I could cast mono. When I bumped my first spoon I set the hook and the zero stretch kicked it. I had one of the most solid hook sets in my life! The spoon ran down river and I turned him and the PowerPro held strong. From that moment on I turned nearly every reel in my collection into a PowerPro reel. I have bought almost every size from 5lb to 200lb. I love the stuff and will not go back to mono ever again. It is the strongest, most reliable line on the market and I will continue to spool up nearly every reel I buy with PowerPro from now on. Thanks guys!

My Fish Story After finishing supper we decided to give it another try for some good “keeper” Walleyes before evening set in. Fishing in the vicinity of Dead Man’s reef we spotted fish on the graph. While catching quite a few small to medium size walleyes, I caught a small Northern with teeth marks in its side and belly area. Shortly afterwards Linda caught a Walleye also with marks on its body. After these 2 fish were caught we did not catch anything else for almost an hour. Assuming there was something BIG lurking in the depths below us, I designed a makeshift Lindy rig. Utilizing some crude engineering skills, I made a 2 foot Snell and put about 1 oz. of lead weight on the one end and then I put a deep runner #9 look alike Perch on the other end with the idea of allowing the Rapala to free float about 2 feet off the bottom of the lake. I used my bait caster with 30 lb. Test Power Pro line and casted it out. Well…about 15 minutes went by and then I saw my fishing rod bend. Picking it up I set the hook and started to reel it in. Within about 2 minutes my line snapped. After quite a few sharp words, I returned to jigging. About 10 minutes passed by and Linda informed me that “I hear a rattle out there”. Not paying too much attention to her I continued to fish. She saw a fish jump and commented again about the rattle. She pointed to the surface of the water where she saw the fish jump. In the twilight of the evening I could see an outline of something which I told her was a rock. Continuing to fish she pointed out that the “rock” had moved and was now about 90 degrees from where it had started. NOW, I started believing her. I shut off the live well (to eliminate any noise) and we were able to drift over to the “rock”. What was thought to be a rock was a fish floating on the surface. Quickly I grabbed my net and scooped it up. The fish turned out to be a 32 inch Northern with my Rapala in its mouth. . After returning to the dock I informed the dock boy about our catch and he told me that he has never heard of anything like that before. And so……this is my 2008 3M Fishing Club annual Canadian Temple Bay Lodge TRUE FISH STORY. Jim and Linda E.

When the big Red Drum show up in the fall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the northern beaches from the Viginia state line down to Oregon Inlet see a nice run of large Drum moving south from the Eastern Shore and the Chesapeake Bay. Sometimes they're right behind the bar and sometimes they're out of casting range from the beach. The Striped Bass run is the same way. So, when conditions permit we launch boats directly from the beach to go after the fish that are out of reach by surf fishing methods. For many years we pursued Stripers and Bluefish, but in the past couple of years we've used the same tactic to target the trophy Red Drum that show up in the fall. We caught a few last year, about a month ago we caught 3 one day. This past Sunday, Nov. 2 , I beach launched with two of my buds, Jay Bender and Randy Williamson. We managed to catch 7. Jay caught the first one jigging a 4oz bucktail with a 6" Gulp twister tail, it was approx. 45" and was the SMALLEST of the day. Of all days, I left my measuring tape in my "surf" bucket in the back of my Jeep. On the previous trip I caught a 49" Drum, I had the tape with me that day, that fish went from screw to screw on the brackets that support the middle bench seat so we had a pretty good mark to approximate the lengths of the fish we caught. We caught six more that day drifting with cut baits on the bottom, all were over 50"! One in particular was an absolute MONSTER and my biggest ever, It was APPROX. 57" long and APPROX.32-34" girth, the common fish weight formula came up with 72-82 lbs. Picture attached. All the fish were released right after the photos were taken. On that day I was using a Shimano 6'6" Trevalla jigging rod and an Ambassadeur 6500 HCL loaded with 50lb Power Pro and an 80lb Power Pro shock leader. Jay was using my other 6500 HCL on a 7'6" Kunnan casting rod also with 50lb/80lb Power Pro. Randy had my heavy spinning outfit, A Shimano 8000 Spheros also loaded with 50lb/80lb Power Pro on a St. Croix X-heavy action 7' rod. The terminal tackle was a simple fixed weight Carolina rig, a 3-6 oz egg sinker, a 6" of 130lb Flourocarbon bite leader and an 8/0 - 10/0 Gamakatsu circle hook baited with cut mullet. I've been using Power Pro for many years now and have caught tons of fish on it. 40-50lb Yellowfins on top-water plugs, Cobia up to 50+ lbs, Stripers up to 40+ lbs, BIG Permit in Belize, lots of big Drum, Amberjacks to 60lbs, Tarpon, Barracuda, Snook, Bonefish, light tackle Puppy Drum, Speckled Trout and Flounder, Big Bluefish etc.. The extreme sensitivity, lack of stretch and unbelieveble abrasion resistance makes it my line of choice for just about every circumstance. I'll never use any other brand of braided line.

I've also attached a picture of my biggest Permit from my last trip to Belize this past Jan. It was approx. 25 lbs and I caught it on a ST. Croix med. action 7' "trout" rod, a Shimano 4000 spheros loaded with 20lb Power Pro with a 30lb flouro bite leader and a 2/0 circle hook. We were sight fishing with live crabs for bait. What a fish! It took me down to about 10 wraps on my spool before it stopped on it's first run. After a 30 min. battle I finally got it in the boat. My buddy Randy and I caught a couple more that day up to 20 lbs. We also caught tons of Bones, and a few mid-weight Tarpon on that trip, all on Power Pro. Power Pro has helped me to catch 2 fish of a lifetime in less than a year! Thanks for making such a fine product and giving me this chance to share the experience.

Thanks, Mike S.
Kill Devil Hills, NC