I was retreiving a spoon once in some frog water and spotted something floating about 20' away. Asked my buddy on the oars of his drift boat to row over and see what it was, and I left about 5 feet of line in the water to keep my spoon from swinging around and lacerating my ear. Hooked an 8lb. silver.

Hooked a dinky 2 lb. (approx.) pink on a buzz bomb off of Prince of Wales Island in SE Alaska, on one of those sunny days you can see bottom in 20 feet of water with polarized lenses. A 20lb. ling shot out from behind a boulder and sucked that poor pink down whole, spewing scales out of his gills like flames from a top fuel dragster's pipes. Sawed off my 8 lb. test in a heartbeat.