Don't know if this has been mentioned before but I do this a few times every year on the charter boat. Get an out of control king that decides to tangle in a few lines no big deal right? Well usually this happens in shallow water, when we are running long leads for spooky fish. The fish usually create a big ball of SH!T of lures and line wrapped up on the line. The only way of getting the fish in the boat is cutting the ball of line to let the guy on the rod reel up the fish. Trying to be careful not to cut the line the fish is on, I start cutting...........And then for some reason I will cut line the fish is on and we all just watch it swim away with a lure in its mouth. Feel like a complete idiot!!

I have lost a few rods over the boat. Was letting a leadcore out when a fish hit a dipsey diver rod so I grabbed that rod. Should have put the leadcore rod in a holder, just a soon as I grabbed the dipsey rod a fish hit the leadcore and it just shot in the lake like a rocket. I have had my head turned while putting a rod in a rod holder only to completely miss the rod holder and without thinking I let go of the rod thinking its in there and see you later!!

Night fishing on the pier one time, I was fighting a king and it was getting close to the end of the fight. Just happened to loosen my grip just a bit on the rod and the king decides to take a run again. Will remember for the rest of my life the feeling of that rod leaving my hands bouncing on the pier and shooting in the lake. Don't think I have ever been laughed at more than that moment...