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Well ladies gentlemen and everyone in between, everyone has one, and I guess a bit ago I had mine. This a super long rant about a bad day I had so I hope you enjoy or find it almost humorous as I do! College has been tough this year so I thought getting on the water would be a nice way to get natures therapy. I was sorely mistaken. But the day itself started off fine, was throwing my hinkle shad, even had some very nice followers, when all of a sudden weekend warriors started to go crazy. It’s was like 50 degrees out and people are water skiing and tubing. But hey the water is meant for everyone and should be shared as such… emphasis on SHARED. Anyway I’m on my kayak near the shore away from all the craziness, living life, listening to some Billy Joel to drown out the noise of all the motoring about, when I see a small no wake zone that is a deep channel created by where an island nears a shore. It’s all coming together right? I cast my beautiful hinkle shad towards the bank and work it through the channel. All of sudden a boat comes flying across my bow at what seemed like full speed nearly hitting me. My line goes sideways as my kayak flips over from the wake. I almost immediately resurface and find my kayak is full of water from the boat that continues to fly across the lake. I instinctively death grip my rod setup instead of trying to hold on to the kayak lol. As stupid as I am I do wear a life vest so I was “safe” just cold and a little disoriented. I get to shore, get my bearings, my kayak and reel in my line. I have never had my heart sink harder than this moment when I tell you I reeled in to find an empty leader… no hinkle. The boats gone as if it had never even existed, so a sad, wet, cold and hinkle less Ben paddled back to shore and went home. Also lost a Battleshad I had loose in the kayak that I didn’t notice I lost, but I have extras so I feel a bit better about that one. I tried for a bit to find the boat but was so fricken cold and didn’t have the energy to find it. Pretty sure they weren’t from the area as I haven’t seen their boat before. Shoutout to @Jim137awho gave me the hinkle for an amazing poor college student price, sorry I lost it. Anyways sorry for the long rant, just felt like I needed to tell someone or some people who could sympathize with my bad day. I’ve sent multiple emails to Mr hinkle to order a backup before losing mine, but he hasn’t responded to my emails. Bought blanks before from him for gifts for family(no I will not take theirs). If anyone has a broken hinkle shad or one that is dirt cheap that they don’t want please let a guy know. Either way, sorry if this was long or not interesting but the forums always usually cheer me up so I thought, why not? At this point it’s almost humorous but hey so is life. At least I got to be on the water… and in it. Anyway Hope all is well everyone. -Ben