Kris, Great JOB! Those were really some impressive fish. On the Hand-Line-in technique, try stripping them in in stead of doing the Hand-Over-Hand Method. Get a hold of the line just as you are doing now. Then. transfer the line to your first finger and thumb of your rod hand and pinch it for line control. Grab the line Above your rod hand and strip off a arm length of line, out, up, and to the left, while maintaining line control with your rod hand. Repeat as needed to bring the fish to hand. If you need to give line to the fish, let the line slide out through your finger and thumb under tension, but keep control of the line with the first finger and thumb of your rod hand, unless you have to put the fish back on your rod. If that happens, you will have to start all over again from the beginning to land the fish. You will need to re-learn your hand line muscle memory but, in the long run I believe you will find the stripping in method to be faster and easier with better line control…K.