Years ago I was fishing on the West side of the Elwha river down close to the mouth and three anglers were fishing close together on the other side. I watched as the guy in the middle hooks into an acrobatic steelhead and after 30 seconds or so, I see him grab his chest and slowly sit down with the rod held only with his right hand. The fisherman upriver runs down to the guy and the guy fishing lowest runs upriver to him. While the up-river guy lays the downed fisherman back on the ground, the down-river fisherman grabs the guy's rod and proceeds to continue the fight with the fish.

I have no idea how the whole thing ended, tho. I can't even tell you if the guy landed the fish. I just turned and walked upriver to fish another drift. When I again looked across the river, the guys were all gone. True story.

Over the years I have replayed that scene in my mind dozens of times.