How many of you have kicked rods overboard?

[Captain Ahab]

Or just use a bunker snag hook

 

[Captain Ahab]

Snag hook

 

[shamoo]

Right after work I went fishing in my little Bantam 3X, my buddy had just given me a Bass Pro Shops pistol grip casting rod(a week before), I bought a new Shimano Bantam Mag baitcast reel for it, after an hour of casting my fore arm cramped and GONE, by the time I got where the combo landed it sunk in about 2 feet of sediment. It took me a couple of minutes to massage the cramp away.

 

[RiverBottomOutdoors]

Had a big catfish snatch a rod out of my hand when I set the hook. Barely got a hold on it before it went out of site.

 

[KMixson]

Had a big catfish snatch a rod out of my hand when I set the hook. Barely got a hold on it before it went out of site.

That is why I tie my catfish rods to the boat. I set the bait clickers to go off to notify me that something is running with it. I use circle hooks so they need a little time to get hooked anyway. Works like a charm. I do attach a piece of frayed nylon rope to the hook to catch the garfish that take the bait also. They have very bony snouts that are very hard to get a hook to penetrate.