Many moons ago a friend and I were fishing for summer kings off a break wall at night. He had some lighted floats out with alewives on them. One of the rods was a custom built sage float rod and a hanson float reel, that combined was worth around a grand. We were off netting alewives when we look down the pier a bit to see one of his floats are gone...After running to the spot where the rod was, it was nowhere to be found. Both of us looked for a long time, and dredged the bottom with spoons to no avail...... Thought he was gonna throw up

Same spot 2 years later I had one of vedders' lamiglas rods and a morrum that was used for fishing bait on the bottom. I had a Chinook on and fought it to the point where it was almost ready to land. My hands were soaking wet and I was in the process of changing the grip on the rod when it bolted off again and tore the rod from my hand. All we saw in the spot light was a rod skipping across the rocks and into the dark abyss hahahaha.