Ahh...the price we pay for a few fish. I've been fishing very shallow water in the 3' to 5' range (flats) for the past few weeks chasing those big slab white crappie spawning and had a few mornings where I lost in the neighborhood of 12-15 jigs each morning. It does hurt when you hang and break off that many in a day for sure. When I aint fishing shallow I might go fishing a dozen times and only loose a few, if any. That's just fishing though.