Two stories come to mind........

My buddy and I were trolling plugs for coho in the Snohomish. He had his rod butt on the floor next to his feet and the rod propped up and under a tie-down cleat on the sled's side. Fish hits plug, he sets hook, rod snaps in two, fish gone.

My story. Just got new 17' fishing boat and was launching it by myself on a narrow, steep launch. Tried to do a u-turn to back down the launch, but the truck(a twin-cab, long-bed) was too long to do the turn and I got myself jackknifed. Decided the only thing to do was to unhook boat trailer then finish turning the truck. The second the trailer got unhitched from the truck, the weight of the boat started it down the launch. I was sitting on my butt being dragged down the launch holding the trailer tongue. A guy sees my predicament and runs over and jams his foot under one of the trailer tires and stops it. I felt really stupid and I still have gravel in my a$$ to this day.