[Gerry Zagorski]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I've been fishing free spool as well and letting them run but they seem to take a long run and drop the bait even before I try and set the hook or with circle hooks, no set and just let them come tight on the drag.

A few things I have noticed:

- One several occations after a run off, the hook point came back fouled in the bunker... In other words it's still where I hooked it in the bunker and it hooked itself again in the bunker burrying the hook.

- Not sure but it seems like I've had more issues with this using braided line. Using a mono leader but wondering if the no stretch charateristics of braid have something to do with it. Maybe the stretch of the mono would be better for absorbing the shock and setting the hook while not pulling the bunker out of the Stripers mouth?