Last year I threw a worm on a tip up for the hell of it,now we were fishing in a spot where the only fish we have ever caught in the years that we have fished it are Lake Trout,smelt and an occasional LL Salmon.. By the time we reached the tip up about a 100 feet away it was almost spooled.. Now I know a smelt didn't drag it that far, that fast, but a Laker or a Salmon definately could,but I can't say for sure because the fish came off the second I picked up the tip up...