paul,
Was on an 8lb bottom, have since changed to ten, didn't time the fight but i spent quite a bit of time from the bank pulling from differen't angles to try and get the fish out of the snag before wading accross, and freeing the line,from overhanging branches(changing the angle of strike, has seen me have less priblems with the same snag), by wich time the fish was in a different set of tree roots, wich after another bit of pulling at different angles i managed to free and then get it into open water, all this must have taken at the very least 4 minutes