Early fall about 10 years ago I was surf fishing in South Carolina for red fish. We were throwing live mullet beyond the breakers and had already caught a few small reds. One very light tap and I set the hook. This fish was big. Not sure at first and I didn't see this fish for a good 5 minutes. When she finally surfaced I would guess she went 40". Huge! The fight lasted about 12-15 minutes and she was wearing out. One last surge and she swam into the mouth of an inlet. Once this happened it was all she wrote. The fight was all over as I just felt dead weight. The fish swam into an oyster bed, hunkered down and sawed me off. The loose tag end of the broken line was trashed about 10 feet up. The oyster bed cut the line up pretty bad.