I don't think I lost ANY.

Here are the two things I learned. An aggressively feeding Chinook will keep chomping on a herring until he hooks himself. And if you don’t yank on them they don’t yank back.

Several times, while playing a big fish I noticed the other rod was getting bitten. I just let it happen and left the rod in the holder. In every case the fish hooked himself! Once they were hooked I would continue to play the original fish, and leave the second biter to tend him on a fairly loose drag. In most cases the freshly hooked fish stopped fighting as much if there was little o no pressure on him.

I know Robbo is a big proponent of not setting the hook. When mooching he just tells his guests to keep reeling. Now since the topic of this thread is jigging I must point out that a rapid hook set and tight line are mandatory when jig fishing.

Another example of, if you stop yanking they stop yanking back, was a day on the Gold when fishing was very slow and I desperately needed a few steelhead photos fro an article I was doing. I hooked a good fish played it until relative calm, and moved it to a quiet back eddy, loosened the drag then jammed the rod in the rocks and sprinted to my truck for my camera. I admit I was worried that when i got back - in less than a minute from the tome i left- the rod and fish would be gone. But they were both there. No problems. Once I applied some pressure the fish began fighting.