[willy]

And Ferm he was telling me about a special needs kid he took out fishing who did not have the bicep and tricep muscles in his right arm. He is a pretty decent guy, I am usually a pretty good judge of character and I got real good reads on Jose.
He fishes all over and has settled on a set up which he uses all over the world for everything from bonefish and permit to giant grouper from very deep water to amberjacks cobia etc.
He said Shimano finally figured out how to put together the high modulus graphite technology with the toughness of the old fiberglass rods which they were not able to put the two materials together until this line of rods a couple of years ago.
Now this reel or the next one up I forget the name in a 5000-8000 size is all he uses now when he is not fly fishing. He loads it with 50-80 pound power pro with a long top shot of flourocarbon leader. He showed us a video of him pulling a 55 pound marble grouper out of the rocks from 200 feet down and it was this rod and reel set up.
He uses the 5.5 to 6.5 Trevalas and says he has yet to get into a fish he could not fight well with the combo and that the new technology in the reel and the rod has just floored him.
Good enough for me, this rod is the 6.5 foot length and the reel and combo is sweet.
Plus I got Mojo on it now!!!