KK, it could have been worse...you could have committed the "most rookie" of mistakes, one that unfortunately is committed thousands of times every fall by many anglers who ought to know much, much better...

After stepping on your buddy's rod while fighting a boot chum, you then bonk the boot chum, saying "It'll smoke up fine!".

The sheer volume of nasty ugly stinky dirty dead squishy butt-ugly scabby covered in bugs carcasses that I see heading back to the trucks at the end of the day during the fall salmon season is appalling...

...and what's worse, you should see the fish they are carrying.

Fish on...

Todd