Soron Reel - Semi Testimonial

[nofearengineer]

This is a sort of weird tesimonial, but bear with me.

While fishing yesterday (really tough as usual...sigh) It was lunch time, so I decided to troll around a bit in open water and enjoy the nice weather.

Well, I hooked into something monstrous...I think it was a big catfish, because it left an 18" long bead of slime on my line above the crank when I pulled it up. So I think the catfish was at least 18 inches in girth, since it probably did this when death rolling my line.

Well, that would make that catfish way, waaaay above the 8lb test I had on. And that Soron STX reel handled every bit of that fish. It gave out line smoothly and took it up quickly when the fish came at me. Unfortunately, I never got the fish to the boat. It didn't break off...I guess it just wasn't hooked very well. It was just about pulling my rod tip underwater though, so it was about all my Mopjo Bass spinning rod wanted. Anways, the reel handled great bevfore the crank popped out. I would have loved to at least seen the fish.