Was fishing a devilshorse on mono a few months back in Little Lochloosa, Fla. Caught a mud fish, as I was unhooking him and huge swirl by some lilypads, quickly threw mud fish back and casted to said huge swirl, sure enough huge bass smoked it. Seen half the body well over 9lbs after setting the hook I felt pressure for a split second and reeled up line.
Fish and lure were gone, felt my line and it was frayed. Always, always retie.
Fishing partner threw same area about 5 mins later landed a 7.13, over a 50 fish day and I learned my lesson big time.