180 - 190lbs or so .. After about 45 mins .. I wanted to just cut the line and end my pain. The only way to describe it is to take 100 lb braid on a musky rod, hook it to the back of a crotch rocket motorcycle and tell the kid to gun while you have the drag cranked right down to the point you can't hardly pull any line out. After 5-6 150+ yd runs like that, you just want the pain to go away !! But it was incredible and I'm very fortunate that the day I was out, the fishing was on.