Actually, just to clarify...it did take me nearly 20 minutes to land it. Between a light tippet and at the time sitting in a float tube amongst a field of lilly pads, 2-3 times it wound me up in the pads and without being able to "haul" it out as would be the case with baitcasting gear or a heavy bass rig, I was stuck letting it bounce around and "hope" that it would work it's way lose with steady pressure. Which it did thankfully. So no....it didn't "fight" for nearly 20 minutes. But it took quite some time from hookset to fish in hand.