Don't Mess with Karma
I just read a post in the Main Crappie Forum about losing fishing rods out of rod holders and it remined me of what happened to me. About three years ago I was fishing near the bottom of a lake and hooked onto a nice road and reel. I cleaned it up and used it four or five times over those three years. You guessed it, I had it in a rod holder when I got too close to some low-hanging tree branches and it got snatched out. It is like it was meant for that rod and reel to remain in the lake, so I just left it alone. Karma decided it should be in there lake and I'm not going to challenge it.
GET THE NET HAROLD, GET THE NET!!