Right on Nanda, me too.  I am a bit lazy and just forked over the cash for a few titanium leaders. 

As long as we're talking losing fish ....  Last August I was on Sunday Lake in the Q trolling a deep diver (Excalibur?).  My rod was nearly lost as it pulled from my hands.  I'm thinking I'm snagged but soon a very heavy fish mosied out into deeper water.  I had a heck of a time pulling it up to gain ground on my real.

I tell my bowman to paddle us toward the lee shore as the breeze was taking us out into the lake.  As soon as the boat turns my line went slack.  I never lost tension but the barbless treble just pulled
free.

What upsets me the most is I never got a glimpse of it.  About a 1/2 hour earlier I boated a 25 inch trout.  Was this a trout?  Maybe a northern.  But, it could've been a huge walleye too.  I'll never know and the fish haunts me.  Didn't Captain Ahab go through something similar?  Maybe on every trip up there I will have to pass through Sunday and troll the southern shore in search of my "whale".  :D ;)