Sorry about your outfit. I've never lost one myself, but I loaned one to my grandfather and he bounced it to Lake Holley back around 1980. Pop usually wouldn't fish with anything but a pole, but I convinced him to use a spincasting reel that day so that he would feel like he was participating in the trip. He would have been content to just drink beer and watch me. I never could get him to use a reel again, even though I told him over and over that losing the rod and reel didn't matter at all.
