My how things have changed. I started fishing gulpers on Hebgen Lake in 1971. I never made a 60 foot cast, never used 6x leaders, and we often hooked and released a couple dozen fish each day. The last time I fished the gulpers on Hebgen I was amazed at the number of individuals that I saw in drift boats fishing for them. Obviously when you are in a drift boat the fish can see you a long distance away and you have to make long casts or you put them down. I also noticed that lots of the anglers were doing lots of casting and not much catching. Throwing a size 22 or 24 trico imitation 60 feet, seeing the take, and then setting the hook at that distance is a skill that I don't possess, and it seemed that lots of others didn't have that ability either.