My friend and I were fishing with minnows and he had a bird take his bait and fly off with it pulling line through the drag as he went. We were in high school at the time and got a big laugh out of it. After letting it go for a ways he yanked it free before the thing ended up eating it along with the hook. Watching him was hysterical because it looked like he way fighting a big one only it was up in the air.