Fishing kings in Ak. a few years back, and watched a guy in another boat who was ecstatic about hooking the big one. As we were about 30 feet away we decided to watch the battle. He was gaining line, but his fish didn't seem to be taking much line. After a few minutes we saw he had hooked about a twenty five lb. sunflower starfish. The idiot then proceeded to try to lift his catch into the boat with the rod, and as I started to yell DON'T, that graphite rod snapped into 3 pieces. You've never seen anyone throw a fit like he did then, as every bit of tackle was scattered around the boat, reel and what was left of rod went in the drink, and the cussing was probably heard clear down to the lower 48.