I will give guessing a try. dogsalmon's story is true (I've seen some stupid moves about like that). RT's story is false (filled with too many unlikely things). Raptorwill's story is true (way too long to be made up). Here's one of my many fsihng stories.
I was fishing one of my favorite tidewater holes in the Wilson river with several boats there too. I hooked into a lunker that took me into more snags than any other fish that I was still able to land. And I did land this fresh 47 pound buck. As soon as I set the hook on bobber down this steam engine ran right under my boat and around the anchorline and ran down hole rubbing my 30 pound Maxima line on it all the way down. As it turned to sit and headshake my partner passed the rod under the anchor rope and I was straight to the fish. Almost. After it ran out from under my boat it had run my scratched line thru 2 other fishermans lines because they just couldnt bear to reel in for a couple minutes. they both knew it was my fish so they just eased their drag way loose and let me play the fish, right into a branch under one of the boats toward the end of the hole. So with quick group thinking the 2 other guys cut their lines and I passed my rod dwon the line of anchored boats to where they dipped my rod under the submerged branch. Everybody is either yelling at me to hurry up or just laughing at the whole thing. Even funnier was as they were handing my rod back up the line of boats guys were taking turns playing my fish for a bit. Haha. Was funny though. I got my rod back finally and the fish was tuckered enough that I played it into the net for keeps. One of my more treasured fish after all that.