I have watched several people fighting the cable off the wall right below Guntersville dam. Nobody has ever got it in though as far as I know. LOL They don't want to hear that it's not a huge fish, so it's best to just let them wear themselves out.
When I was a teen, and even before, I remember my Daddy and others snagging down there and occasionally they'd have a single fish scale as big around as a coke can on one of the big treble hooks.