Dang, glocktogo - I have a lot to learn. Can you write a book or something that I can buy? Do you change your line out every year? How smooth is smooth - how smooth must it be? I ask because I am going after big stripers later this year - by the way, did you guys hear that a 45 lb striper was caught in the lower Illinois a couple weeks back, not too far short of the state record? Also, an ol' boy in Missouri pulled a 115 lb catfish out of the Mississippi a few days ago. Jumpin crawdaddies!