Outdoors - StatesmanJournal.com:
NEWPORT -- Ultralight fishing this is not.'Pick up a spool of 600 yards of 50-pound-test (line),' skipper John Boyer told one of his fishing companions, Paul Conner. 'And while you're there, pick up some leader, 100-pound test.'This is what you call getting primed Thursday's all-depth halibut opener.And after a thumping, bumping run 34 miles offshore to a halibut honey hole known as 'The Chicken Ranch' in the 33-foot Cabo tournament tuna fishing"