Great idea! This is my first post to tbe board, liked this idea so much I had to register to get in on it.
As seems to be the custom with first-time posters, here's my amusing (at least I thought it was) anecdote: A buddy and I are fishin for steelies this past summer on the upper drift of the Sky. We're anchored just below a promising looking riffle working drift gear, have been fishing for maybe five minutes when I feel the boat shake a little and hear my buddy say "What the ****"? I turn and look and he's standing there with the bottom section of his relatively new lamiglas rod in one hand, a dumbfounded look of amazement on his face, and the tip section of the rod slowing sinking just far enough downstream from us that he couldn't reach it. He had got a strike and set the hook so hard the line snapped, tip section came off and fell in the water. Still makes me laugh when I think about it.
Great board Bob, keep up the good work!