Yeah those were the days. We actually spooled penn 320s with 50 lb mono ,and worried sometimes we were "under-gunned" ! Lol. On the bright side my daughter caught a 39 inch , 24.7 pounder last monday so there are a couple gooduns swimmin around. That is her second ky trophy fish this year, a giant brownfish and this striper, one to go for masyer angler in the same year. 22 inch stripers are a sad state of the union for sure though