My partner and I started fishing the Crappiethon USA tourneys back in the mid 80's. After 3yrs of trying to qualify for the classic we finally did back in 1988. We were long line trolling jigs in shallow water when my partner said he had a good one on. We were trolling 12 rigs and the wind was blowing I started to reeling in my rigs and then went to the back of the boat to help my partner net this huge female slab. As my partner got her close enough to net we noticed she had about 5 or 6 rigs tangled up. Just as we went to net her she broke off. We ended up placing 3rd place winning $500 but would have easily won the tourney and $2000 if we had of got this pig in the boat. Only 3/4ln separated us and 1st place. That has been over 20yrs ago and I still think about that time.