A couple of years ago in Barkley Sound we got a double-header on nice kings, we got the first one in the boat, and hurryed to get it out of the net and get the hootchie untangled from the net. We got the net free, my buddy netted the second fish but pulled straight up on the net with the handle horizontal, you guessed it, the net hoop broke at the handle. I dove to that side of the boat to grab the net, and caught the boat's aluminum railing in my ribs. We both grabbed the net hoop and got the fish in, the first one was a 31lb'er and the second a 38lb'er, but I had cracked ribs to deal with for the next few weeks... very painful, couldn't breathe in deep or laugh at all.

-N.