if you fall in the water fishing, you deserve to be in the water with something like that. you have a drag on the reel for a reason. plus the line would break before you got yanked in. its only 30-50lb test line they use. some go heavier but you lose distance availability (which when the tarpon 1st hits, they usually run quite hard and by the time your done reeling in the other poles they have sucked out 100+ yards of line)