Never lost a rod but back in the days when Coal lake still produced some huge fish I did do a pretty impressive 50 yard dash through the shallows, couldnt quite catch my rod so I made a hail mary dive for it at the last possible second and got ahold of it, lost the fish though and he seemed like a pretty good one. As a fishing addicted kid living under the poverty line with parents who would have been pretty happy to see me give it up there was no way I was letting that rod get away!!
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