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| Yes, you can catch beach or open water snook on smaller outfits - I have a 4 wt outfit I've used to catch scores of them over the years. Yes, you can needlessly harm or exhaust snook. Yes, if you're gonna go under-gunned, target smallish fish and learn how to use the rod and drag correctly to beat them quickly. All good points above.
As for the big fish debate: a 34+-inch snook can easily empty a 3 wt. spool in a hurry, since smallish outfits tend to hold very modest backing. Individual fish fight differently, of course, but an oversized snook that follows a straight line in the other direction - and some do - is gonna take your fly line, your backing and part of your manhood. I have no interest in getting in the middle of the debate above, but anyone who denies that has never hooked a truly big linesider on a flyweight rig.
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