Barely a year after ascending to the helm of the LDS Church, Thomas S. Monson found himself standing on a float boat, having snagged what he believed was the largest rainbow trout he had ever hooked. Maybe 10 pounds.
The whopper fish snapped Monson’s pole in half and nearly dragged the Mormon prophet into the Idaho lake, but the determined — and, some say, supercompetitive Monson — wouldn’t let go.
He took hold of the line and yanked as hard as he could, but he felt himself slipping with each tug.
So his fishing buddy, Jon Huntsman Sr.