Ever had a fish break your wooden lure into pieces ?

[Tagger]

maple will crack itself in half ,,, don't even need the fish . thru wiring is better safe than sorry .. haven't got enough big fish (50) yet to compare .

[ThrowingTimber]

I know a guy who cast, fought a fish and all he got back WAS the through wire...

[Mike P]

Yes, it's happened, both to me and a guy I was fishing with. A certain variety of wooden darter with screw eye construction--tho the screw eyes probably weren't the reason the plugs cracked their whole length. The wood was.

[Flaptail]

Got a 45 pounder on a yellow Gibbs 3-1/2 oz. Polaris in the canal a few years back and the bitch snapped it in half at the neck. ( no it wasn't a new plug either, it was vintage John P. Gibbs.)