Marlin University & Strike Drag Setting Technique Explained | Waterman S04E08

This week we fish with Legends of the sport and finish off with a tournament competing against some of the best during the Marlin University event. Captain Chris also talks strike drag and how he uses drag settings to hook more fish with this fishing technique.
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Marlin University & Strike Drag Setting Revealed | Waterman S04E08
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[@user-tb9qs1fb4e]

AWESOME!!!! That Big Billy fought hard and true

[@entuydeleila]

Happy Birthday Captain Congrats on the win!!

[@ChasingPelagics]

Chris! Love the channel brotha! I’ll be giving you a call when I’m in Kona for sure.
I like the technique, usually for the second half of the fight I slowly increase the drag more and more, it kinda breaks their spirit and brings em up quicker. Tight lines brotha!

[@L2fish]

Wish my boat mate helped in Cabo. Mine got off right at the boat

[@adammcgeorge3538]

Happy Bday BTW!

[@neillee3793]

Suggestion: dump the music during moments of dialog in the cockpit - love hearing the action!

[@waterman241]

thanks I appreciate feed back and what you guys like or dont like. these videos are for you all so I want to aim to make people stoked on fishing and stoked on the videos. Ill work on the music sections moving forward. I get a bit excited when im editing and sometimes prob go overboard on the tunes ahhah. noted and thanks for the feedback !!

[@stephenscott963]

AMAZING!!!

[@waterman241]

Thank you ! Thanks for watching

[@eduar2playa]

Great video! Capt what about 80 pound line, how many lb of drag in every mark ? Thank you!!!

[@adammcgeorge3538]

Peter Pakula recommends about 33% of the line class you are fishing on strike, what are the drawbacks of that you think? Also how much 130lb mono you have on the reel before you get to the Dacron and how often do you replace that mono in a year/season etc.

[@waterman241]

I think that works for him so thats good, and look alot of people have tremendous success with heavy drag on the bite and there are sound theories behind that. the best thing to do is go out there and experment and see what works for you. Ive personally tired a bunch of diffrent ways of doing it and keep coming back to my way of light drag on the bite then pushing it up. my only thought about heavy drag on the bite is it can make for alot more bill hooked and wrapped fish that come off when they tunr their head during the fight, allowing a light drag and the fish to carry the momentum throught the bite and turn their head seems to be what works on a better hook up rate for me, however please keep in mind that is my opinion. good luck with it all out there and hope you catch them up !!!

[@blakeshaw5272]

Do you like a certain spread or do you decide on the way out based on sea conditions like wind, chop, swell, clarity?

[@waterman241]

in kona our conditions stay fairly calm and the same if they do change I will change up my spread. in other spots where it can get rough you do have to adjust.

[@xWiKeDxSaNaKeUtSx]

How many on strike?

[@waterman241]

18 lbs and 15 lbs on the stinger

[@LONDINESE95]

you could use those 3 fat guys as bait catching orcas...

[@rigginuts]

How can you fight a fish with your legs stinking straight out ? Peter B Wright would not approve.