I have caught plenty of fishing poles over the years. I have even caught my own fishing pole after losing it overboard in 40ft of water. The most memorable pole catch was when I was drift fishing what looked to be a wooden boat wreck in 65 ft of water on the Ohio River. One of my rods got hung up and when I finally got it free I could still feel the weight of something at the end of my line. When I finally got it to the surface it was 3 antique fishing rods and reels that were tangled up in a cable that was maybe part of the boat. The fishing rods were metal with glass eyes. It was hard to read what type of reels they were. Whats the odds when you figure those things have been laying down there for better than 50 years!