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Why It's Still Relevant What started as a California trophy-hunter niche is now mainstream

If you trap their claw and start squeezing, they will release it and close off the wound

Sure, youd find the occasional angler dedicated to using them, but most inshore guides and anglers had a quiver full of spinning gear and not much else

The controversy it generated, including its banning from major circuits, is itself a measure of how effective and how disruptive it was

For example, faster action rods tend to flex more near the tip while moderate or slower action rods tend to flex more into the middle and lower sections of the fishing rod