I took the 3 weight out today to a local lake for about an hour and a half to catch some small bluegills. I don't know how many fish I caught, but I know that I didn't catch 17 fish. That is, I had 17 casts in which I did not catch anything. At one point, I probably caught a fish on 30-40 casts in a row. No pictures, because in the time it would have taken me to get the camera out, snap a picture, and put the camera back away I could have caught three or four more fish, so I didn't bother...