Last year my wife and 2 other couples were in Brent Lake and the 3 boys decided to do a little fishing the last hour of the day. I was in the stern and trying to fish with my buddy in the middle and his son in law up front. After a while I got tired of trying to keep the canoe positioned and fish so I just reached behind me and set my pole down bottom first and just as I let it go I knew what I had done. I saw the tip slowly sink out of sight. My buddy was very sympathetic or was that a laughing spasm that he had?  What was I thinking? .....I did have a spare