While fishing?

I slipped off a log jam on the Entiat river . Not paying attention while swatting skeeters. Fell in up current and it took everything I had to hold on and not get sucked under. The current was so strong it sucked my shoes off as I pulled myself up. Never let go of my fishing pole however.

One other time on the SF of the Boise we where drifting lazy throwing woolly buggers for big bows. I was on the front of the raft with my leg hanging over the side. I just hooked a keeper for dinner that night and was negotiating him into the raft. The guy on the oars tried to help and when he leaned down he buried an oar causing the raft to spin to the left. My leg was hanging out the side and got hung up on a rock. The current kept shoving the raft and I could not bail. I thought for sure my leg was going to break from the force . We finally got the raft moving and when I pulled my leg up the shin bone was bowed over a couple of inches. It tore the skin off the inside of my shin down to the bone. After about an hour or two the bone regained its shape. I still have a scar for that memeory.