Excellent, well thought out reply. I was watching a demonstration of a guy using a twelve foot rod, and ten pound line. He paced out sixty-five yards and got his wife to hold a pea sized split shot gently between her thumb and finger, the shot had been pinched onto the line.

The guy then returned to his rod, took up the slack, and made a full strike. No matter how hard he tried he could not generate enough power to take the split shot from between his wife's fingers, line stretch negated all the effort.

If you think about this experiment for a moment, it really helps us to understand why we sometimes miss takes you would right fully believe to be impossible.