REMEMBER WHEN

• Back in the late 1960s and early ’70s, I was working on my father’s drift boat, fishing out of South Florida. We caught king mackerel, mutton snapper, yellowtails, triggerfish, bonito and more, and used 40-pound-test line on Penn 65 reels. We broke the line on many fish on the initial run, or we were gifted with a nice backlash when the