I've lost many a fish to all kinds of "accidents" but at least they weren't the fish of a lifetime like many of you are describing...OUCH...that's gotta' hurt.

I had a steelhead this year run downstream on me one morning in January. It was cold and windy and everyone was pretty bundled up. Anyways, I yell at this guy that I'm coming down, he doesn't respond. I yell again but I guess he can't hear with his hood over his head? He is standing thigh deep in the water as my fish goes between his legs and about dumps him in the river. When he began to fall backwards he broke my 10lb test off. He was pretty shocked...kinda' funny to see.