was tryin to jig up a few wally/saugs yesterday on the illinois river. we were drifting a break vertical jigging when smack, snap the wrist, dam, missed him.
sat down the pole in the right hand and turned to rebait the left-handed rod when i hear clunk/splash and see my legend extreme/president supreme xt combo slowly disappearing from sight.
lunged to the side of the boat and reached as far as i could into the water, but it was too late. SOB!!!
quickly kicked the trolling motor up a couple notches to hold my spot as a combination of panic and sickness set in.
looked in back of boat and had kelly pass me a dubuque rigged rod with a half ounce jig on the dropper as the wiseguy says “looks like we will be fishing here for a while.”
made a cast upstream and let the jig drift until it was almost straight out from the boat before starting to reel back slowly. felt a tug and kept up a steady retrieve and lo and behold a green/blue rod tip appears, then the entire combo is at the top of the water, kelly quickly grabs the rod handle and passes it up to me.
needless to say, it was my best catch ever. 
after a few woo hoos, a tug and the jig came free from the snag.
spent the next couple hours fishing with one pole but soon went back to double fisted jiggin, but i think i will be more careful from now on. 
Glad you got it back! The Holiday Inn Express?? Good one Brian!